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ma·ter·nal mor·tal·i·ty

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Maternal Mortality

    Maternal deaths resulting from complications of pregnancy and childbirth in a given population.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of maternal mortality in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of maternal mortality in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of maternal mortality in a Sentence

  1. Angela Aina:

    There's a real negative narrative around Black women, Black girls and Black motherhood that really drives a lot of the ways in which Black birthing people in general are treated in the health care system, we want change, and we want to see an end to maternal mortality.

  2. Sara Rosenbaum:

    It is as if somebody came down with a magic marker and circled the states least equipped to deal with an abortion ban and with the largest percentage of their population falling into the most elevated risk categories, so, you are setting up a prescription for phenomenal effects in terms of maternal mortality, infant mortality, infant low birthweight, all of the risks that follow from these kinds of [ unplanned or unwanted ] pregnancies.

  3. Poonam Muttreja:

    Women do need sterilization as a option of family planning, but we need it conducted properly and under hygienic conditions. The manner in which sterilization is being done in India currently is unethical, we will see a huge reduction in maternal mortality if we invest in other methods of family planning also.

  4. Sarah Riggs Amico:

    I sat in an awful lot of living rooms( during the last campaign) and I can tell you, nobody's happy about having 79 counties without an OB-GYN or 64 without a pediatrician, or the highest maternal mortality rate in America, if we do those things, we can win. Look what we did last year and there was an awful lot of shenanigans at the ballot box that probably prevented Stacey Abrams in 2018 from being governor.

  5. Mary Szoch:

    Vice President Harris’s statement that ‘women will die’ if Roe is overturned relies heavily on the lie that abortion is safe and necessary for women, she fails to acknowledge that the United States has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world, while having the most liberal abortion laws in the world.


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