July 16, 2019
by Patricia Tomasi
The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world and Mom Congress hopes to change that. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2019, American women are more than twice as likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than they were in 1987. Though the U.S. still does not track maternal suicides, the U.K. reports suicide to be the number one cause of maternal mortality. “This is unacceptable,” 2020 Mom founder, Joy Burkhard, told us, “and change must happen.”
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