Why Are So Many Pregnant Mothers Dying in D.C.?

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Not the only place in America apparently. I remember seeing a documentary last year about the same problem in New York and Georgia. It’s shameful to see how this is actually tolerated.
 
Serena Williams suffered serious complications after the birth of her baby. Thankfully she was able to advocate for herself, and recognized that her symptoms were serious, and not just normal postpartum aches.
 
Note the absent figure: the father. Do you think that that might have something to do with it?
 
There’s also that. I’m sure many in the US who don’t have adequate care after giving birth, which I believe wasn’t even mentioned in the video above. I don’t recall every single detail since that was a while back. It shocks me how the richest nation on Earth can have these problems with basic care.
 
Don’t you think that that fathers might just have something to do with maternal/child health?
 
To a degree. But this is about systemic racism. Health care needs that are ignored or minimized because the patient’s skin has more melanin.
 
Racism is not the cause, and there is no more systemic racism in this country. The closures of these hospitals are most likely financial decisions.

Identity politics will not serve you well, Bruised_Reed.
 
Probably. That’s what happens when the government interferes so much in the free market.
 
As someone from a country with health care for all we don’t have as many deaths in childbirth. From the articles this looks like it’s been a problem for a long while and is heavily connected to race.
 
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As someone from a country with health care for all we don’t have as many deaths in childbirth.
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Instead, you have people using pliers to pull teeth out of their mouths and spending tens of thousands of dollars to go to other countries to get special surgeries.

The issue here is more local politics and cultural. Systemic racism no longer exists in our government.
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From the articles this looks like it’s been a problem for a long while and is heavily connected to race.
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The original post was a video, not an article…
 
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Actually we also have free dental care. It takes time but if a person can’t assure private insurance they aren’t left without. 😊 I can’t watch videos on my phone so I read the articles that were supplied after.

Also, racism certainly does seem to still exist. I mean the US even has actual Nazis again. Let alone all the other troubles people of colour suffer.
 
Kinda seems like none of you bothered to actually read the article. The women giving birth at these hospitals have a much higher rate of hemorrhaging, which has complications.

The article indicated the hospitals can make protocol changes that will improve their response to this issue, but it didn’t indicate the hospitals were generally negligent or were directly causing the increased rate of hemorrhaging. The patients using the hospitals appear to be a much higher risk group of patients for this problem. You could disperse them to other hospitals but that doesn’t change their individual risk factor for this problem, it just blends in their stats with more healthy births.

Correlation is not causation, but it does highlight that these women need additional care which can help reduce birth complications.
 
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Also, racism certainly does seem to still exist. I mean the US even has actual Nazis again. Let alone all the other troubles people of colour suffer.
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It’s sad that many people write off inequities that break along ethnic lines as nonsense, responsibility issues, or “race” politics. I find this particularly appalling on a Catholic board. Many of the same things were said about the Irish during the potato famine and plenty of the Irish and Italians that emigrated to the US simply because they were catholic.
 
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