As the maternal mortality rate falls worldwide, it's rising in the planet's richest nation: Ours

The World Health Organization defines maternal death as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes."

One of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals was to cut the global maternal mortality rate by 75 percent between 1990 and 2015. In fact, the overall rate—the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births—has been cut by 50 percent, with 157 of the 183 nations studied reporting decreases. Most of the reduction has occurred since 2000.

While the worldwide rate did not attain the U.N. goal, it has at least been falling since 2000. Not so for the United States....
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