Wake Up America! This is Domestic Terrorism!
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Maternal deaths in childbirth rise in the U.S.
Maternal deaths related to childbirth in the United States are nearly at the highest rate in a quarter century, and a woman giving birth in America is now more likely to die than a woman giving birth in China, according to a new study.
The United States is one of just eight countries to see a rise in maternal mortality over the past decade, said researchers for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in a study published in The Lancet, a weekly medical journal. The others are Afghanistan, Greece, and several countries in Africa and Central America.
The researchers estimated that 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 births in the U.S. in 2013, a total of almost 800 deaths. That is more than double the maternal mortality rate in Saudi Arabia and Canada, and more than triple the rate in the United Kingdom.
The study was the latest to underscore a steep rise in pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. since at least 1987, when the mortality rate was 7.2 per 100,000 births. The U.S. experienced a sharp spike in 2009 that the Centers for Disease Control attributed to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. The rate has dipped slightly since then, said Nicholas Kassebaum, the lead physician in the University of Washington study, but it remains stubbornly high.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maternal-deaths-in-childbirth-rise-in-the-us/2014/05/02/abf7df96-d229-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html
6 Reasons Americans Should Stop Obsessing Over the Threat of Terrorist Attacks
Here are the other things that proved more fatal to Americans than terrorism last year:
1. Child Flu Deaths: During the 2012-2013 flu season, the CDC logged 149 pediatric deaths from the ailment.
2. Deaths During Childbirth: Researchers writing in the medical journal Lancet estimated that nearly 800 mothers died during childbirth last year, making our maternal mortality rate three times as high as the United Kingdom's.
3. Workplace Deaths: According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, “4,405 workers were killed on the job in 2013...(3.2 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers)—on average, 85 a week or more than 12 deaths every day.”
4. Ordinary Gun Violence: In 2013, more people died every day from ordinary gun violence than from terrorism—with about 30 people being shot and killed each day, according to Slate. The majority of gun deaths are suicides.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dog-bites-workplace-accidents-and-4-other-things-killed-more-americans-terrorism
The GOP is at full throttle to close "abortion clinics". These clinics supply the most basic care to women, from mammograms, family planning and birth control and so much more for a woman's wellness. Do not deny them that right. Do not give them health care at 77 cents on the dollar that a man gets.
Are you voting in 2014? I am and I am voting for the Democratic candidate all the way! I am.
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Say no to the GOP!
Very cool that you've been there.
Boyfriend has spent the night here many weekends. Daughter is 24, college graduate and mature. She had to move back in for $ reasons also. I've had no problem at all with it. But some of my relatives - "Living in sin! The horror!" 
No biggie to me. Their happiness is what matters.
" I'm sure she'll get knocked up and ruin my son's future" Yes, I know that one.
I'm very proud of my daughter! And I am glad that I raised her to feel free to make her own decisions. She is the "liberated woman" I would have liked to be at her age.
Absolutely!
But you're right about the "make out" sessions and the guys' failure to perform in my younger days.
Our daughters do have it waaaaay better, at least in regard to sex. Too bad so many people would love to ruin it for them by resticting or eliminating access to birth control.
I love it that they have such freedom. Let's keep it that way!
And, of course, they are lucky to have moms who "get it."
Oh to hell with the poopy heads that will not approve!
Happy day to you and yours~ 
I think it is so cool that she has decided to move in with her BF!
And, yes, to hell with all those stuck in the past! Their era is over. I'm very proud that my daughter is living proof that we don't give a damn about their religious dogma!
Mainly, I'm just very happy for her and I hope the relationship works out. 
Women need to stand united against the Talibornagains/Tea-liban.
Well said. We vote because it is our choice to choose.
As for Morgan Freeman in your sig line...swoon. I love that man!
Thank you~
weak-kneed DEMs who are always satisfied meeting the GOP on the GOP's own terms ... every single time.
When we consider the high mortality rate of mothers giving birth and the high infant mortality rates, we have to see our priorities are messed up. I don't recall but in the Democratic National Platform do we stress the need to bring these horrible death rates down? I know that we emphasize that we need the strongest military in the world.
Thanks for posting.
We pride ourselves on being number one, yet it is safer in friggin' China to give birth? 
