Ohio Republican, Skeptical of the U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate, Blames It on 'Obesity'

[ck4829]

Well, here’s someone whom I wish would shut up about reproductive health: Ohio state Rep. Bill Dean (R), who is doubling down on his recent comments calling skyrocketing U.S. maternal mortality rates a “myth” by blaming high maternal mortality on… “obese people.”

“I’m not a physician. But I would imagine, a lot of times, it’s the lifestyle of the lady that’s having the pregnancy,” he told the Dayton Daily News. “We also have the most obese people in the whole world. It’s just individual cases.”

Dean first told the outlet earlier in October that “there’s no great risk of dying from pregnancy,” and, further, that ectopic pregnancy—which occurs when the fertilized egg implants outside the uterus—“doesn’t count.” Ectopic pregnancies account for about 2% of pregnancies, and are the leading cause of maternal mortality during the first trimester—but sure, buddy!

Contrary to Dean’s claims about the supposed safety of pregnancy, the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among wealthy nations, per statistics provided by the CDC. This ranking is rendered even more shameful by additional CDC research that found more than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable, ultimately stemming from high costs and limited access to the full range of health care—particularly along lines of race and class. Black pregnant people are three to four times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts, and a 2017 study found the maternal mortality rate is disproportionately higher in states where abortion access is more restricted, which surely bodes well for post-Roe times.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-republican-skeptical-u-maternal-160000505.html

Don't we also have the most profit-driven healthcare system in the whole world?



Anyway, Republicans playing doctor... always a bad idea.

[sakabatou]

1. Ugh...

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Reading this article

Made by blood pressure go up at least 50 points! Did this clown just step out of the 1800s?

I’m so goddamned sick and tired of these old male hacks talking with authority about something they know virtually NOTHING about!

[ColinC]

3. Do people ever get tired of blaming everybody else for their faults?

Finding scapegoats for everything all the time has to be exhausting!

[KentuckyWoman]

4. I am not a doctor.

He should have stopped at that instead of letting the idiot out to blabber on.

[VGNonly]

5. Remember

the female body can shut that down!

[Genki Hikari]

6. We need to eradicate J Schools. All of them.

Because they haven't taught any of these useless stenographers pretending to be reporters to ask one stupidly simple question anytime someone made a claim during an interview:

"What evidence do you have to support that claim?"

If reporters would ask that stupidly simple question each and every time these insane nitwits opened their face anuses, we wouldn't have so much stupid filling our environment.