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has been women will die they try their hardest despite the numbers that have followed to maintain that narrative but it's getting more difficult every day welcome back

to issues et cetera i'm todd wilkin joining us to talk about mainstream media coverage of maternal mortality in

2023, Dr. Michael New.

He's visiting assistant professor of social research and political science at the Catholic

University of America, senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

He's Pagecomstock Cunningham Fellow with Americans United for Life and a columnist

for National Review Online.

Dr. New, welcome back.

Thanks for having me. Much appreciated.

What is the Centers for Disease Control Reporting on the U.S. mortality rate?

Sure.

Last week, they came out with some new data on maternal mortality.

This data is from 2003.

And the news is good. We saw increases in maternal mortality during the pandemic, but now the pandemic is over, numbers are falling. And the new

data indicates the maternal mortality rate fell by about 17 percent since 2022. So we see a one-year

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