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“Maternal death is death caused by pregnancy or its management— while pregnant or within 42 days of the termination of pregnancy”
(per the AJOG study)
The author of the article mentioned in the first post of this thread made a medical study political by talking about abortion and conflating the situation with COVID.
Despite not finding a significant overall increase in mortality rate with reframing, indirect obstetric and late maternal deaths increased.
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The study’s discusses how the findings provide “new insights on race-specific (and) cause-specific maternal deaths.” Further, “This alternative formulation can help frame clinical and public health initiatives to reduce maternal deaths, especially in vulnerable subpopulations.”
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(cont.)
Dismissing the U.S. maternal mortality rate by making political references focused on technical definitions ignores the reality of a problem.
It also disregards the most vulnerable populations who need the most help.
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(cont.)
The U.S. still has the highest mortality rate of many developed nations.
Estimating this—
Take this study from 2020 and change the U.S.’s maternal mortality rate to 10.4 (as found by the reframing in the recent AJOG study).
The U.S. still comes out on top.
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(cont.)
The main point—
By politicizing the changing methods of data interpretation, the journalist dismissed the existence of a well-known problem— one that really hasn’t changed much (according to the new framing).
In fact, in many ways, it has gotten worse.
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Here are the first two posts of the thread-- I posted them out of sequence by accident.
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Attached: 1 image Dangerous reporting from this journalist with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies. /1 (cont.) #MaternalHealth #WomensHealth https://www.wsj.com/articles/abortion-and-americas-phony-pregnancy-crisis-065563d7?st=950htauk8ubhwkv&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
About the journalist / editor who wrote the opinion piece from the first post in this thread.