The True Risks And Sacrifices Women Make To Birth Children
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Jazmine Denise
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Maternal mortality
Maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.” Over 700 women die in the United States as a result of pregnancy-related complications and two-thirds of those deaths are preventable. Black women are 2 to 6 times more likely to die from childbirth-related complications.
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