The only reason that the US has a higher infant death ration is because we try to save any viable live birth that other countries call a still birth. It’s all a matter of semantics.
Now the claim makes sense, in a deceptive-spin sort of way.
There are even more semantics involved than that. We count any pregnancy past 20 weeks. Europe doesn’t start counting until 32 weeks. Most EU countries also do not count the statistics for immigrants, only citizens.