MS 3.28 What’s Causing the Maternal Mortality Crisis in America?

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🗓️ 28 March 2019

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to your Thursday morning show. My name is Philip DeFranco, and today we're going to be talking about what people are calling a maternal mortality crisis in America.
0:08.3	Possibly you've seen little bits of this coming up. You have people like 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and
0:13.5	Kirsten-Jilibrand talking about this crisis in the news recently.
0:16.0	He also had the likes of Bill and Melinda Gates addressing this. In fact, in a recent interview
0:19.4	with Business Insider, Melinda Gates said that the U.S. maternal mortality rate is incredibly disturbing.
0:24.0	And if you're wondering what maternal mortality is, why are we talking about this today?
0:27.7	Simply put, women who give birth in the United States have a greater risk of dying relative to other
0:31.9	rich countries.
0:32.8	And the concern here is backed up by a six month long investigation from 2017 by
0:36.3	ProPublica and NPR that ranks America's maternal mortality rate as the worst in the developed
0:40.8	world and it is by a significant margin.
0:42.8	And here's a clip from March of Dimes President Stacy Stewart's testimony explaining
0:46.1	what those stats actually translate to.
0:48.1	There's 700 mothers that die every single year and almost in over 50,000 who experienced dangerous
0:56.2	complications that could have killed them, making the U.S. the most dangerous
1:00.7	place in the developed world to give birth and we think and we know
1:05.8	that you agree that this situation is completely unacceptable.
1:09.1	The CDC defines the maternal mortality rate as deaths which occur as a result of pregnancy related
1:13.2	complications before or up to 42 days after childbirth.
1:16.9	But the thing is, the research shows that post-pregnancy complications often happen well after
1:20.7	the 42-day mark.
1:21.9	So in 1986, the CDC started collecting data
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