ARTICLE SUMMARY:
It’s a healthcare issue that you just wouldn’t expect to find in this day and age, especially in high-resource countries like the US: a mother bleeding to death as a result of childbirth. But it happens all too often.
In the US, of the 700 women who die each year from pregnancy-related causes, 36% die during delivery or the week after, mainly from bleeding complications. That’s according to the CDC, which also notes that for women of color, the maternal death rate is three or four times higher than that of white women, and that goes to the availability of healthcare resources.
