Sort of unrelated but I always like to point out that the fatality rate for active duty police in the US is only around 12 per 100,000, so it’s more dangerous to be pregnant than to be a cop
How about both?
You don’t need to deny or dismiss any other valid supporting point in order to drive your point home. Every unnecessary death is wrong. An increase in unnecessary deaths is wrong. It’s terrible en masse, and each one is completely unforgivable.
US maternal mortality rate:
2016: 17 women per 100,000 births
2024: 19 women per 100,000 births
That is an 11% increase and higher than any year in the 2000-2019 timeframe.
Sort of unrelated but I always like to point out that the fatality rate for active duty police in the US is only around 12 per 100,000, so it’s more dangerous to be pregnant than to be a cop
Not the rate but the needlessness is the issue.
The rate is the factual evidence that denying women healthcare creates real harm.
A singular case of denied abortion leading to death is enough here. It is not about the statistic threat but the unnecessary death.
That may be so, but the numbers are where you point to show how deficient the US healthcare system is towards pregnancy and mothers.
You seem to be under the impression that the average American understands numbers.
That’s not what the numbers show though. You need more numbers and context to do anything rigorous.
https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1276
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/stillbirths-in-the-u-s-higher-than-previously-reported-often-occur-with-no-clinical-risk-factors/
What I meant is that their quoted numbers alone are insufficient.
How about both? You don’t need to deny or dismiss any other valid supporting point in order to drive your point home. Every unnecessary death is wrong. An increase in unnecessary deaths is wrong. It’s terrible en masse, and each one is completely unforgivable.
Just for a comparison, Canada’s maternal mortality rate for 2023 was 12 per 100,000.