Federal Maternal Health Plan Falls Short for Key Lawmakers, Advocates
The Trump administration earlier this month released an ambitious five-year plan to improve the health of pregnant women and new mothers, including halving the country’s abysmally high maternal mortality rate. But lawmakers, advocates and providers say the framework still doesn’t go far enough. Maternal mortality emerged as a bipartisan lightning rod in recent years, as new data revealed that women in the United States are more likely to die of a pregnancy-related complication than those in 10 other wealthy countries, with 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 births and Black and Indigenous m...