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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:52:43 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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In article <vril6j$i5kg$2@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>SNIP
>
>>>>> On 3/19/2025 1:17 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snippo -- more kids needed!>
>>>>
>
>Today I read that "The US has the highest maternal mortality rate in the
>developed world. Shockingly, it's on the rise." I have not checked this.
>P 239. Careless People. Sarah Wynn Williams. 2025.

This is sadly true, and it's more than doubled in the past twenty years.
My friend who is a doula says that some of this is because Americans are
choosing to have babies much later in life now, but most of it is due to
the lack of available medical care and Americans' reluctance to use what
care is available.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."