Millions of US women don\u2019t have access to maternity care, report warns<\/p>\n
More than a third of US counties do not have a single medical birthing facility or the services of an obstetric clinician, causing health advocates to warn about the dangers of \u201cmaternity care deserts\u201d, a new report says.<\/p>\n
Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Pregnant women are less and less able to access maternity care<\/p>\n There\u2019s also evidence that the Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/a> is accelerating the issue. A Commonwealth Fund report from July found that women living in states with strict abortion policies are less likely to be able to find an OB-GYN<\/a>. An earlier survey found that such policies were driving away doctors<\/a> specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Millions of US women don\u2019t have access to maternity care, report warns More than a third of US counties do not have a single medical birthing facility or the services of an obstetric clinician, causing health advocates to warn about the dangers of \u201cmaternity care deserts\u201d, a new report says. Read more at The Guardian … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,172,125,137,90,99,384,7],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-abortion-bans","tag-doctor-liability","tag-gop","tag-maternal-death-rates","tag-maternity-deserts","tag-ob-gyn-shortage","tag-red-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}