We're #1! We're #1! We're #1...

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Finally america is again number one in the developed world in something other than military expenditures and per capita number of citizens in jail:

We now are also number one is rate of women dying in childbirth. We’re number 1!!

We drown out reality with fist pumping cheers.
3:46 PM - Jul 28, 2018

[donkeypoofed]

1. And the birthrate has been falling too.....

For a country with world class medical centres, this is jawdropping!! Why on earth would these mothers be dying ?! Holy schmoly.

[WePurrsevere]

2. Link a an article that addresses which states are the highest too....

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/best-and-worst-states-to-give-birth-usa-today-investigation/

[Initech]

3. MAGA!!!!

[rurallib]

4. Well, you know once the kid is born nothing else matters

at least that is how I understand the republican catechism

[polmaven]

5. How deplorable!

[Marie Marie]

6. Well as long as this sad fact remains true, let's go for broke

and up those numbers by imprisoning all of the Trump family and the rest of the Cabinet and politicians who either aided or enabled his criminal activities.

[Victor_c3]

7. In my best republican impersonation...

They’re probably all brown people anyways, it’s not like the people who are dying are “real” Americans.

Unfortunately, republicans will see nothing wrong with that. They’ll blame it on “poor life choices” by the mothers who died and say they should have gotten impregnated by a rich investment bankers instead of the guy who works a job under-the-table to make ends meet.

[woundedkarma]

8. We're staying ahead of the curve...

My wife gave birth to our first kid in our bedroom ... umm she was a month early and you know how everyone says the first labor takes forever? Welllllllll... it was taking a while and then suddenly it wasn't.

So, you'd think we'd be ready the second time... nope. Our second baby was going to be delivered by a midwife. Except he was coming too early as well. Water broke, midwife said too early (his lungs wouldn't be mature) get to the hospital. Doctors spent the time from when we arrived until my boy was born telling my wife she absolutely had to let them induce. She stood her ground, there's no need to induce for... I think it was 24 hours... plus they give the baby something to help the lungs mature and every moment from then until birth is important. Then the morning after labor started... she went into the bathroom and she yells to me "Get someone the baby is coming." So while I hit the call button and ran into the hall to flag down a nurse/doctor, my wife proceeded to give birth again by herself.

Thank goodness my wife is so good at this or our babies might have been delivered by the doctors in the hospital and she would have been at risk of death.

(yes, I'm being a little sarcastic... Truth is the hospital kept my baby alive. UMichigan is one of the best hospitals in the country and we are lucky to be nearby)

My little boy spent the next month in the hospital because he was so early but two years later he's doing just fine so is my daughter.

More seriously, there's no reason for this. It's just one more thing for our country to be ashamed of. Also, I wonder just how many of these deaths are the result of the reduction of Planned Parenthood funding and locations. During my wife's first pregnancy, we went to PP for prenatal visits.

[sandensea]

9. The upward trend started in '88, when the GOPee made abortion its big battle horse.

Since then, as you know, one Republican governor and state legislature after another have created obtacle after obstacle to a woman's right to choose.

Higher maternal mortality rates were the inevitable results - not to mention the hundreds of thousands of injures due to women seeing subrosa practitioners, or worse; trying it themselves.



But look at California (blue line):



And the source of much of the increase - Texas (red line):