Wonkette - The United States has the worst maternal mortality of any developed nation on earth. We are literally two spots below Romania, a country once famous for having an incredible number of orphans .... We're not doing too great on infant mortality either, ranking 33 out of 36 OECD countries. We rank 49th in the world for infant and under-five deaths combined, right below Uruguay and several spots below Bosnia and Herzegovina.... In fact, according to a recent study from the Gender Equity Policy Institute, the states where it is most dangerous to give birth or to be an infant are the states that have banned or severely restricted abortion. In fact, those in states that banned abortion were three times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after giving birth than those in states that had not — and babies born in states with bans were 30 percent more likely to die in the first month.
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