{"id":3300,"date":"2025-02-06T22:40:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2025-02-06T22:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:40:59","slug":"racial-gap-widened-in-deaths-among-us-mothers-around-childbirth-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/racial-gap-widened-in-deaths-among-us-mothers-around-childbirth-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial gap widened in deaths among US mothers around childbirth in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Black women in the US died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below pre-pandemic levels overall but racial gaps widened, according to federal health data released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">In 2021 and 2022, the maternal death rate for Black women was about 2.6 times higher than white women.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/06\/black-women-childbirth-deaths\">The Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black women in the US died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below pre-pandemic levels overall but racial gaps widened, according to federal health data released Wednesday. In 2021 and 2022, the maternal death rate for Black women was about &#8230; <a title=\"Racial gap widened in deaths among US mothers around childbirth in 2023\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/racial-gap-widened-in-deaths-among-us-mothers-around-childbirth-in-2023\/\" aria-label=\"More on Racial gap widened in deaths among US mothers around childbirth in 2023\">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":[450,425],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maternal-mortality","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","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=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}