Before reading about maternal mortality, I didn’t even know it was a major issue in the world, let alone the United States. I remember as a young girl reading stories about women in the 1900’s and how common it was for women to die during child birth because there was not advanced medicine and technology like there is now. Since I’ve read or seen in the news about new technology being created for medical purposes, I thought that we, as a country, had moved forward with this problem. In reality, we have only taken steps back. The fact that, “statistics released in September of 2010 by the United Nations place the United States 50th in the world for maternal mortality” (Coeytaux, Bingham, Strauss 153)… is truly heartbreaking. As a modern progressive …show more content…
I always thought this to be true until I read about Maternal Mortality. Even though the country has come a long way since overcoming inequality, studies have shown that, “For the last 50 years, black women who give birth in the United States have been approximately four times as likely to die as white women” (Coeytaux, Bingham, Strauss 154). These women have lesser access to medical needs which leads them to their death. These women who are not able to afford insurance on their own are relying on the medical needs that the government provides in order for them to have a safe and healthy pregnancy. This issue is bigger than anyone thinks. It can’t be fixed by just giving the pills or treatment a pregnant women needs in moments of life or death. This is an issue that needs to be fixed before women face the risk of life or death. The first solution to any problem is accepting it. If the country can’t accept that this is an issue that needs to be dealt with, it will never move forward with maternal mortality. In the book, Reproduction and Society, under the topic of Reasons for The Increase in Maternal Mortality it states that it is not know 100% the cause of the problem. There are few factors that going into it, for example, lack of medical needs for pregnant women, but there is much more that needs to go into depth in order overcome this problem and create a solution. A solution could help fix this problem is by testing a women’s pregnancy from contraception to birth. In this testing, the people who work for Health Care, can see what medical needs she is missing in order to prevent life or death situations. From there, they could come up with the solution and realize that it just can’t be fixed by giving a pregnant women what she needs a dangerous medical state. I hope that with a solution like that, government