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Wednesday 10 August 2016

Another Cause of Climbing Maternal Mortality Rates?

This is a shocking article, and I would say shameful article on the rise, unique to the US, of death during or in consequence of childbirth.
It is horrifying that deaths are especially on the rise among black women.
But nowhere does it mention something about which I wondered - as infertility treatments become more common, less costly for the individual woman, (more likely payed for by insurance, in other words,) more sought after by people who in another era would be spinsters, isn't it possible that some of it is due to many a women not listening to her own body which has made it clear that it is not prepared, does not think it in its own best interest, it does not wish to carry a baby to term?
It's a thought.

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