This is disturbing, no matter how you look at, but the discussion is so policy wonk skewed it’s worthless. Are these deaths occurring in single mothers/ no PCP? Where is the public education on this? If not sor your digging this up at an obscure source, I wouldn’t have heard of it.
May post in the future:
“ The rising trend in pregnancy-related deaths during the past 2 decades in the United States stands out among other high-income countries where pregnancy-related deaths are declining. Cardiomyopathy and other cardiovascular conditions, hemorrhage, and other chronic medical conditions are all important causes of death. Unintentional death from violence, overdose, and self-harm are emerging causes that require medical and public health attention.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7377107/