I think it is time that Americans face what the United States has become. I never see this discussed on news channels and only very rarely in print. We have dreadful infant mortality, awful maternal mortality, rotten child care, hundreds of thousands of hungry children, and terrible family support for low income families, and families of color. And now as this article describes particularly in Republican controlled Red states we are becoming a third world country in prenatal and maternity care. All of this is the result of Republican Party connivance but, more importantly, these people are in office because of voters. The problem with America, is about a third of the American population, and what is being done now it is going to shape America for a generation.
An individual enters the Greenwood OB/GYN Associates clinic across the street from the Greenwood Leflore Hospital in Greenwood, Miss., Oct. 21, 2022. Credit: Rogelio V. Solis / AP
New data from the nonpartisan health advocacy group March of Dimes shows that the U.S. saw a 4 percent decline in hospitals with labor and delivery services between 2019 and 2020.
Access to maternal health care is evaporating in much of the country, as hospitals close and obstetricians become harder to find for millions of pregnant people.
New data from the nonpartisan health advocacy group March of Dimes shows that the U.S. — which already has the worst maternal mortality rate among developed nations — saw a 4 percent decline in hospitals with labor and delivery services between 2019 and 2020.
But the raw figure masks the inequities playing out across the country, according to the report. Alabama and Wyoming lost nearly one-quarter of their birthing hospitals in that time period, while Idaho, Indiana and West Virginia lost roughly 10 percent.
“It’s a crisis,” said Stacey Brayboy, the senior vice […]
