{"id":598,"date":"2022-12-03T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T01:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=598"},"modified":"2022-12-03T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T01:38:43","slug":"more-than-4-in-5-pregnancy-related-deaths-are-preventable-in-the-us-and-mental-health-is-the-leading-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/more-than-4-in-5-pregnancy-related-deaths-are-preventable-in-the-us-and-mental-health-is-the-leading-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The staggering number of preventable maternal deaths \u2013 84% \u2013 from the CDC\u2019s most recent report represents a 27% increase from the agency\u2019s previous report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/reproductivehealth\/maternal-mortality\/erase-mm\/mmr-data-brief_2019-h.pdf\">from 2008 to 2017<\/a>. Of these pregnancy-related deaths, 22% occur during pregnancy, 13% during childbirth and 65% during the year following childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>While the information described above already paints a dire picture, the CDC data was collected prior to two major events: the COVID-19 pandemic and the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/roe-overturned-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-supreme-court-abortion-decision-184692\">fall of Roe v. Wade<\/a>, which overturned nearly 50 years of abortion rights. Both of these events have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/05\/maternal-mortality-death-abortion-ban-roe\">exacerbated existing cracks<\/a> in the health care system and, subsequently, worsened the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/730\/723432.pdf\">maternal health in the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/more-than-4-in-5-pregnancy-related-deaths-are-preventable-in-the-us-and-mental-health-is-the-leading-cause-193909\">The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staggering number of preventable maternal deaths \u2013 84% \u2013 from the CDC\u2019s most recent report represents a 27% increase from the agency\u2019s previous report, from 2008 to 2017. Of these pregnancy-related deaths, 22% occur during pregnancy, 13% during childbirth and 65% during the year following childbirth. * While the information described above already paints &#8230; <a title=\"More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/more-than-4-in-5-pregnancy-related-deaths-are-preventable-in-the-us-and-mental-health-is-the-leading-cause\/\" aria-label=\"More on More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause\">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":[90],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maternal-death-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}