{"id":805858,"date":"2021-09-23T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=805858"},"modified":"2021-09-23T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:44:17","slug":"no-women-arent-50-more-likely-to-die-from-childbirth-today-than-a-generation-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-women-arent-50-more-likely-to-die-from-childbirth-today-than-a-generation-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Women Aren\u2019t 50% More Likely To Die From Childbirth Today Than A Generation Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-women-arent-50-more-likely-to-die-from-childbirth-today-than-a-generation-ago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=805858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1290267575.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last week claimed that women are 50% more likely to die from childbirth today than they were a generation ago.<\/p>\n<p>Gail Heriot, who sits on the commission but regularly dissents to its extreme suggestions, published <a href=\"https:\/\/poseidon01.ssrn.com\/delivery.php?ID=789116067090119107117102098092008010100085029034061049102015110014085125066126084110057122057000109057009021091124094066089127033036011060059111103115069074069110091051040023017015127081122004126012103074002108096026085093090068080104083111120098092&amp;EXT=pdf&amp;INDEX=TRUE\">a rebuttal<\/a> to the claims that women were dying as a result of childbirth at much higher rates than they were decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlas, like many of our Commission reports, this one is a disappointment. We\u2019re unlikely to save lives if we don\u2019t make a greater effort to sort out fact from fiction. I don\u2019t see nearly enough of that effort in this report,\u201d Heriot wrote in her rebuttal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[P]erhaps the most serious is its repeated allegation\u2014usually in the form of unexamined quotes from supposed experts\u2014that \u201cracism\u201d is what\u2019s causing racial disparities in maternal mortality. This allegation (which lately I have also been seeing on publicly funded posters and billboards here in San Diego) will not help us reduce maternal deaths. Instead, it will encourage racial minority mothers to view medical professionals as hostile or even malicious. That is much more likely to make things worse than better,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Heriot explained in her rebuttal that if the rate of maternal mortality had increased 50%, it would be \u201calarming,\u201d however, the increase appears to be the result of \u201cchanges in how the United States keeps track of maternal mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how Heriot explained the change in record keeping:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>In 2003, a pregnancy question was added to the revision of the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death. This question includes a series of checkboxes designed to elicit whether the decedent was pregnant at the time of her death or whether she had been pregnant in the last year. These checkboxes were added for a reason: Researchers feared that pregnancy-related deaths were being under-reported and hoped the checkboxes would improve the likelihood that a pregnancy-related death would be reported as such. The checkboxes made it more likely that a physician preparing a death certificate would inquire into the decedent\u2019s pregnancy status. If it turned out she was or had recently been pregnant, the physician could be more attentive to the possibility that pregnancy increased the likelihood of the death. Such cases could, for example, be referred to medical professionals with expertise in making a judgment about pregnancy relatedness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The federal government, however, does not directly control the form of death certificates. Individual states do. Not all states were quick to adopt the checkbox recommendation (and some had made efforts even before 2003 to improve the likelihood that a pregnancy-related death would be reported as such). As each state eventually fell into line, the reported rate of maternal mortality ticked up in that state\u2014not because more pregnancy-related deaths were occurring, but rather because more deaths were being classified as pregnancy-related. This is exactly what those who recommended the checkboxes had hoped for. We shouldn\u2019t be surprised that what they intended is what actually happened.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Heriot explained, comparing numbers before and after a change to reporting was made is unreliable. She also wrote that the entire notion of a pregnancy-related death could be misinterpreted and that a clear definition is needed, as it could mean anything from a death that would not have occurred were it not for the pregnancy to someone dying while pregnant or recently pregnant and the pregnancy <em>possibly<\/em> increasing the likelihood of death.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, media outlets have already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/health\/2021\/09\/15\/health-care-for-us-mothers-shows-little-improvement-new-report-says\/\">jumped to report<\/a> the commission\u2019s original claim, and trying to correct the record will be difficult, since media outlets tend to focus on stories that purport hardships for women.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last week claimed that women are 50% more likely to die from childbirth today than they were a generation ago.Gail Heriot, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}