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Idaho Drops Panel Investigating Pregnancy-Related Deaths as US Maternal Mortality Surges

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  1. Jul 7, 2023 #1
    philnotfil

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    Idaho no longer trying to do a better job of preventing pregnancy related deaths is a little concerning, but the real story is how much worse our whole country has been in comparison to the developed world, and how we are getting worse.

    Idaho Drops Panel Investigating Pregnancy-Related Deaths as US Maternal Mortality Surges

    Liz Woodruff, executive director of the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, said she was “incredibly disappointed” by the legislature’s decision to scuttle the committee. “It seems relevant that the state of Idaho supports a committee that works toward preventing the deaths of pregnant women,” she said. “This should be easy.”

    The committee disbanded despite a high rate of maternal mortality in the United States that exceeds those of other high-income countries. The U.S. recorded 23.8 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020, compared with 8.4 in Canada and 3.6 in Germany, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    And the U.S. rate is sharply rising. In March, a few weeks before Idaho lawmakers adjourned their 2023 session, the CDC released data that showed the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. climbed in 2021 to 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births.

    Idaho has a particularly acute problem. Its pregnancy-related mortality ratio was 41.8 pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020, according to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee report from that year.
     
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  2. Jul 7, 2023 #2
    ridgetop

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    That rate is terrible. We need to a better job at educating women on the resources available to them. I know from experience that too many women that were raised and live in low income/ poor education areas have no idea what resources are available. Often times it is scared young girls16-24) who don’t know where to start and are basically on their own. Let’s focus more on helping these women through the pregnancies.
     
  3. Jul 7, 2023 #3
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    Simple, just stop taking vaccines.
     
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    That rate is disgraceful. I suspect drugs play a significant part in that. Reduced access to abortion isn’t helping either.
     
  5. Jul 7, 2023 #5
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    It’s being ignored because the problems causing it (obesity, hypertension, smoking, bad diet, poverty etc) shine lights people don’t wanna have to face and couldn’t do a thing about even if they did.
    For all of the “America is the greatest and don’t dare question it” people, these truths are far too inconvenient.
     
  6. Jul 7, 2023 #6
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    Its obviously terrible, but what was the panel going to do? Make recommendations and publish information no one would act on? At least Idaho is acknowledging it was a waste of everyone's time. This is America, we dont address problems, we ignore them until we can use the cops on them.
     
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  7. Jul 7, 2023 #7
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    Your first paragraph is no doubt true, but I saw first hand far too many young women who were scared and didn’t know anything about the resources available. They often thought it was have an abortion of go it alone in the pregnancy.
    As far as a swipe at America and those that hold it in the highest esteem..
    We can no doubt do better but we are far better than the vast vast majority of the world given our size and demographic makeup. From extremely poor ignorant people on reservations, to kids basically raising themselves, to welfare trailer trash queens smoking a pack a day by the time they are 15… still better than most countries.
     
  8. Jul 7, 2023 #8
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    You are being obtuse
     
  9. Jul 7, 2023 #9
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    The article acknowledges maternal mortality has increased nationally. Indeed, it is a worldwide phenomenon. In fact, excess mortality is staggeringly high around the world.

    Tree, meet forest.