Maternal mortality is the shame of US health care -- CNN

Every day, more than 800 women around the world die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth — and many of those deaths could be prevented if society dedicated itself to lowering maternal mortality rates, writes Every Mother Counts CEO Christy Turlington Burns. ...
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