[spintreebob]

We Pro Lifers should take this seriously ... and intelligently.

Guess who has addiction to alcohol, tobacco, drugs.... and sugar. Yes sugar. Moms who die were raised from babies with far more sugar in their diet than the average person, who already uses too much sugar. They feed their babies sugar .... and they die.

And then of course, there is alcohol, tobacco, drugs (legal and illegal). These are the factors that push deaths high.

The solution is not more medicaid. The solution is to convert these people to be Seventh Day Adventist... Like Ben Carson. Good lifestyle is what they need.

[cherry]

I wonder if murder is listed as one of the risk factors?

but I don't have any answers...pre term babies are at risk for lower IQ and other problems.....

my ex dil, a black woman with a grad degree, health conscious, thin, eats very well, organic as possible....visited her OB gyn frequently......

she still had problems with her pregnancy and our grandson was pre term, very small, and is now on the autism spectrum........she did everything right...

[blueplum]

racism? as in, every single nurse and doctor in Georgia is other-than-black?

or racism in genetic markers?

or racism in lifestyle?

or racism in social services handing out food stamps, free housing, free prenatal care, free post-natal care, free education, free doctors and free hospital delivery?

that racism?

[mom aka the evil dictator]

This has been going on for years. Black women have free prenatal healthcare in South Georgia and don’t bother seeing a doctor until they are in labor. For years there were stories in the Albany Herald about the large number of premature babies due to the lack of prenatal care. The state and counties invested tons of money in programs. These women don’t care! That baby is a check and if it is disabled, then it is a bigger check.
Ask me how I know! My daughter was an office manager for a Rural Health Initiative. She would come home talking about these poor women with 10 children and how hard it was for them. Yes she was an idiot liberal at the time. My son is a nurse, he was a paramedic. He would pick them up in labor and do a medical history. Nope, no prenatal care. You cannot fix stupid! Maybe bribe it to get it to tie some tubes.

[GingisK]

Impoverished black women in Georgia get free medical care, as do their babies. Perhaps some just don’t know how to play the insurance game.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“Research is clear: access to care and other socioeconomic factors plays a significant role in maternal mortality rates in Georgia and throughout this country and actually Georgia has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the country,”