U.S. Maternal Death Rate Now Highest In The Western World, Thanks To GOP War On Women
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/08/u-s-maternal-death-rate-now-highest-in-the-western-world-thanks-to-gop-war-on-women/According to the latest State of the World’s Mothers report, released in May, 2015, the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal death in any western nation. Women in the U.S. are ten times more likely to die from pregnancy as women living in Poland or Norway. Compared to women living in Belarus, the country with the lowest rate of maternal deaths, women in the U.S. are twenty times more likely to die before, during, or immediately after childbirth.
Globally, the rate of maternal deaths has been steadily declining over the past two decades. Around the world, the rate of maternal deaths has been reduced by 45 percent since the mid-1990’s. Meanwhile, a woman’s risk of death from pregnancy in the U.S. today is double what it was a decade and a half ago.
It gets worse, though. The rate of maternal deaths in the United States is calculated according to the number of deaths reported annually. According to a report published by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, at least 38 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are not reported as such in the United States. Research also estimates that at least half of all maternal deaths are not listed as “maternal deaths” on the death certificate in cases where the fetus was not delivered, when a woman died more than a week after delivery, or in cases where a woman died from a condition that existed before pregnancy, which was worsened because of pregnancy.
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and directly attributable to republicons 
I lived in CA when I was having children (thankfully!!). There you got 6 weeks paid maternity leave from the state (not the corp.) and 8 weeks for C-sections or other complications. This was prior to FMLA. In FL, you get no paid time at all, just the FMLA benefit of being able to be off without pay. It's also all done through the employer, the state is totally uninvolved.
Another thing, the US poverty level has gone way up and lots of women can't afford children or medical care. I thought Medicaid covered people who made less than the FPL, but that's not true. Each state can set their own limit. All states in the south only accept people for Medicaid with incomes that are a FRACTION of FPL. I was looking at a chart recently, and in AL (if I remember correctly) anyone with a family of 4 who made more than $9,000 a year wouldnt qualify for Medicaid. Of course, these are all states that have rejected the ACA, so their empoverished citizens get little if any help at all. Also, a lot of these states have also made it very difficult to have abortions, even when the mother's health will suffer. You can bet the underreporting of maternal deaths is deliberate to cover up the states fault in creating these conditions. Nothing to see here folks, move on.
and thought better of it, because while it would be apt, I'd get into trouble.
Heaven for fend a woman have autonomy over her own body. That just should never happen. 
And I'm a guy too. I think it's disgusting when birth control for women is seen as the absolute worst thing in the world, yet Viagra is advertised literally every 30 seconds. I mean... what the serious fuck? 
