I was astonished to learn this information, America has the worst pregnancy death rates among develop countries. I first ran across as story about this May when it was just a note that pregnant women in the U.S.A was dying at extremely high numbers (see video). At that time it was due to hospital neglect or lack of protocols for pregnant women. Something that seemed to have an easy fix. Then I read this article from NPR read here
Even though a CDC task force has been put in place and California is taking efforts to reverse the growing trend. I saw this CBS report a month ago and