Yes. More pregnant women die in Texas than in any other state.
While pregnancy is becoming safer across the world, it’s becoming more dangerous in the United States. Maternal mortality dropped in 157 countries between 2000 and 2013 but went up 27 percent in the U.S. over a similar time period. The U.S. ranks lower than Kazakhstan, Kuwait and Libya when it comes to keeping pregnant women alive.
In a study published last month in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, researchers looked at the number of women dying during pregnancy, childbirth and in the months after delivery. “The U.S. maternal mortality rate is moving in the wrong direction,” the researchers concluded.
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