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This makes no sense.
Maternal mortality has increased over the past two decades, and the US is the highest among comparable developed nations. Given Idaho’s abortion ban, you would think they would want to work hard to make childbirth safer and improve healthcare for women and infants. Analyzing preventable deaths gives information on how prevent them in the future.
It can’t be budgetary either, because it is budget neutral.
Maternal mortality has increased over the past two decades, and the US is the highest among comparable developed nations. Given Idaho’s abortion ban, you would think they would want to work hard to make childbirth safer and improve healthcare for women and infants. Analyzing preventable deaths gives information on how prevent them in the future.
It can’t be budgetary either, because it is budget neutral.
Idaho dissolves maternal mortality review committee, as deaths remain high
The committee published one final report on maternal deaths that occurred in 2021.
www.boisestatepublicradio.org
The rate of pregnancy-related deaths in Idaho remains high, according to the latest annual report published by a committee studying maternal deaths in the state.
The release of the report comes just as the maternal mortality review committee, or MMRC, has officially terminated its work, after the Idaho Legislature declined to remove its June 30, 2023 sunset date.
The latest report, analyzing deaths that occurred in 2021, will be the committee’s last, unless new legislation is passed allowing its work to continue. This leaves Idaho as the only state without a maternal mortality review committee.
For four years, the committee made up of doctors, social workers, coroners, emergency personnel and more, studied each death that occurred during pregnancy or within a year after, in an effort to eliminate preventable maternal deaths, as well as health problems that result from being pregnant or giving birth.
Of the 42 pregnancy-associated deaths the committee analyzed between 2018 and 2021, all but one – or 98% – were found to be preventable.