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LTC Eugene Chu
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*sigh* While rich in urban areas don't have to worry about pregnancies, the article mentions cites a Vox story about the poor and rural areas that still face risk of giving birth due to lack of quality healthcare services.
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SFC Terry Stinnett
SFC Terry Stinnett
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In this day and age, per March of Dimes (a pretty reliable organization) we have health care deserts (many rural hospitals & medical practices, in predominantly "red" states have closed) where about 2.2 Million women do not have ready or reliable access to pre-natal, labor & delivery and post-natal care.
https://www.marchofdimes.org/mission/reportcard.aspx
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
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The US has long had the highest maternal mortality rate in all developed nations - and it's worse for women of color. Why? I haven't really looked into it but perhaps the fact that no one takes women seriously whether during pregnancy or post partum. Especially post partum women tend to get ignored.

I almost died from pregnancy. I had preeclampsia and had my daughter a month early. My best friend had preeclampsia with her third child far worse than I and it's basically a miracle she didn't die and was a lot closer to death than I was - and had her kid 2 months early. Both are fine today - but pregnancy is dangerous. Period. More people need to realize that - especially, well, white males who love to try to legislate it.
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SFC Terry Stinnett
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Hurts like hell to use the thumbs up on this post, however, having paid attention to this particular demographic x24 months, it's absolutely heartbreaking
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