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Fearmongering About Maternal Mortality To Push The Abortion Narrative Doesn’t Help Pregnant Women. Here’s How To Actually Help
Unless you have a family member, loved one, friend, or colleague affected by it, you might not think that death from pregnancy still happens today.
By Andrea Mew7 min read
In fiction, we’ve been fed a rich diet of “mother died in childbirth” stories, whether it's from books like the Grimm Brothers’ Snow White and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights or films like Interview with the Vampire and even Star Wars: Episode III. You might be shocked to learn that maternal mortality is not a thing of the past, but rather is getting worse as time goes on in America.