There were 787,000 US weekly jobless claims last week. That is a lot of people without an income to their households. That alone is scary when realizing the Republicans have no intention of passing an aid package to the people. They are however expected to vote on the most radical judge ever to sit on the USA Supreme Court that discards women's lives for the sake of a fertilized egg. In case the Republicans haven't checked recently, there is no shortage of Americans in the world.
- Number of births: 3,791,712
- Birth rate: 11.6 per 1,000 population
- Fertility rate: 59.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15-44
- Percent born low birthweight: 8.3%
- Percent born preterm: 10.0%
- Percent unmarried: 39.6%
- Mean age at first birth: 26.9
- Number of vaginal deliveries: 2,581,992
- Number of Cesarean deliveries: 1,208,176
- Percent of all deliveries by Cesarean: 31.9%
No USA Senator during the confirmation hearings of Coney-Barrett asked if she was aware of the maternal death rate when considering the availability of abortion rights. Did they ask her if she is aware the maternal death rate is grossly underreported because of the absence of a check off box on the death certificate indicating it is related to a recent pregnancy? And what has Coney-Barrett done to seek out the quality of life issues for mothers and pregnant women while involved with her sect organization? Nothing. She gives speeches and attends meetings of right-wing extremist organizations much like her late boss, except it is the distaff side of the universe she is obsessed with.
When a woman has ambitions to achieve the status of Supreme Court Justice, it is only right that woman has a proven track record of understanding Americans most at risk for danger, disease, and impoverishment. This nominee knows nothing of that but only how businesses complain about their costs shave profits from their stockholders.
The Affordable Care Act is a requirement for those most at risk for danger, disease, and impoverishment. It is vital for the survival of women.
By Nina Martin
The last state (click here) to adopt the checkbox on death certificates, West Virginia, finally added it in mid-year 2017 prompting this new MMR data. The CDC also admits that there have been some misclassification of maternal deaths due to checkbox errors and are working with states to make the data more reliable and accurate.
...Now, here it was, (click here) from the CDC’s National Vital Statistics System: 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2018 — an estimated 658 lives lost. It was worse than the last official calculation, 12.7 deaths per 100,000 births, and it placed American maternal health outcomes where experts suspected they would land, worst among wealthy nations, and 55th among all countries, ahead of Ukraine but just behind Russia.
The new U.S. rate was widely assumed to reflect the cutting edge of maternal mortality research. But as the Illinois experts quickly discovered, there were gaping holes. The rate didn’t include the types of cases they had been reviewing that day — suicides and drug overdoses, which may not seem like it at first but are often linked to pregnancy and childbirth. It didn’t include new mothers who had died more than 42 days after giving birth, missing a huge chunk of relevant deaths. It underestimated the deaths of women 45 and older as well as those whose pregnancies had been overlooked by doctors and coroners....
