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4 days agoThe ongoing spectre is the black maternal mortality rate, at 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births (2023 figures from CDC) compared to white (14.5), Asian (10.7) and Hispanic (12.4).
I don’t have numbers for 2024-2026 but can only imagine it’s gotten worse and more disproportional as access to maternity healthcare deteriorates further in the US.
Compared to the rest of the industrialized world, the US sucks when it comes to maternity mortality and infant mortality.
Yeah, the birth rate is tanking mostly because Zoomers are not bothering to date at all, let alone having sex and risking pregnancy. They are the generation of abstinence that purity culture always wanted.
It doesn’t help that it costs $200 for a traditional date (dinner and a show), and that they have no hope for an actual future, such as home ownership, retirement or continuing to survive in a stable society.