Posted on 04/16/2018 10:15:52 AM PDT by Simon Green
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is urging Democrats to the polls, saying “women are dying” because the left is losing elections.
The Democratic National Committee vice chairman spoke at a progressive training session on Friday and said the party needs to triumph at the ballot box for the sake of women's health.
“Women are dying because we are losing elections,” Ellison said. “We don’t have the right to lose a damn election. We have to win. We have to win.”
Maternal morality is rising in states like Missouri and Texas, Ellison said.
The United States has one of the highest rates of maternal deaths among wealthy and developed countries.
In 2013, there were 28 maternal deaths per 100,000 births in the United States.
Missouri has the one of the highest maternal death rates in the nation, with 19.9 deaths per 100,00 births in 2016.
That rate places Missouri on par with countries like Belize and worse than poorer countries like Moldova and Costa Rica, the Kansas City Star reported last December.
The leading causes of maternal death in Missouri are all cardiac-related. The state's high rates of smoking and obesity worsen those complications.
The risks are magnified if a woman doesn't see a doctor regularly during pregnancy, like the 17.5 percent of Missouri women who received no prenatal care during their first trimester, the Star reported.
Last month, Ellison urged Democrats to support single-payer healthcare.
Good catch!
Useless meat sack.
What are you talking about, Ellison?
Unfortunately, the democrats have been winning a LOT of local elections for the last few months. They have flipped many districts from red to blue. The RNC needs to get fired up and focused.
Ellison is outdoing Nancy Pelosi for hysterical, over the top statements meant to increase party donations.
Drama Queen alert!
“The leading causes of maternal death in Missouri are all cardiac-related. The state’s high rates of smoking and obesity worsen those complications.”
For how many decades now have pregnant women been told that being obese and smoking makes for a riskier pregnancy and more complications during labor and delivery? So just how would putting more Democrats in office make these women change their habits?
Single payer healthcare would not make any difference. It would just mean these women would ignore the advice of an O.B. all through their pregnancy rather than just at sporadic visits at a health clinic. But at a higher cost to tax payers.
“The leading causes of maternal death in Missouri are all cardiac-related. The state’s high rates of smoking and obesity worsen those complications.”
For how many decades now have pregnant women been told that being obese and smoking makes for a riskier pregnancy and more complications during labor and delivery? So just how would putting more Democrats in office make these women change their habits?
Single payer healthcare would not make any difference. It would just mean these women would ignore the advice of an O.B. all through their pregnancy rather than just at sporadic visits at a health clinic. But at a higher cost to tax payers.
“The leading causes of maternal death in Missouri are all cardiac-related. The state’s high rates of smoking and obesity worsen those complications.”
It sounds like personal issues are the problems.
If you can afford to smoke, you can afford not to smoke and see a doctor monthly.
Not in islam.
taqiyya
Name names.
The Dems really hate morality, maternal and otherwise.
I love chili dogs w/ onions & cheese......
Quite the statement for a moslem to be saying. He obviously knows his gutter cult treats women as property and so-called honor killings are strictly a moslem phenomenon.
What happened to the Blue Wave?
Hey Bill check Obama for your loses.....
Oh I hate these people!
This is all they’ve got? Hahaha, pathetic.
They are dying because of unsafe abortions are clinics that aren’t properly regulated because Dems like Ellison get money from the abortion industry.
100,00 ??? That's not even a real number.
Muslims have a terrible track record with women.
Our hospitals take on and report difficult pregnancies. Most other countrkies do not.
From a doctor....
More women will be raped and murdered in muzzies win elections.
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