Texas has the highest rate of maternal mortality in all of the developed world. One lawmaker hopes a task force will determine why this is.

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  • State legislators are taking the maternal mortality crisis into their own hands
    As efforts to address the country’s maternal mortality crisis have stalled at the federal level, advocates and lawmakers are increasingly turning to statewide maternal mortality review committees to ...
    04/27/2024 - 9:00 am | View Link
  • Virginia delegate hopes to end state’s high Black maternal mortality rate
    In Virginia, the Black maternal mortality rate is about two times greater than white women, according to VCU Health. Infants born to Black women pass away up to three times more than other races ...
    04/26/2024 - 2:23 am | View Link
  • Oklahoma's Own In Focus: Black And Native Women Face Higher Maternal Mortality Rates
    Pregnant women need more support in Tulsa and across the country. Data from the Oklahoma Maternal Mortality Review Committee shows Black women are three times more likely to die than white women. For ...
    04/25/2024 - 11:41 am | View Link
  • US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023
    The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than ...
    04/25/2024 - 6:34 am | View Link
  • Nigeria's worsening rate of maternal mortality
    And one of the highest in the world, in fact. Nearly 20% of all global maternal deaths happen in Nigeria, said the World Health Organization in 2019. A Nigerian woman had a 1 in 22 lifetime risk of ...
    04/22/2024 - 1:21 pm | View Link
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