Maternal mortality data is murky — but the crisis faced by new moms is clear

Too many new moms are dying in the U.S.

Exactly how many, however,  is harder to establish.

After years of neglect, the issue of maternal mortality is finally getting attention in policy and politics, as well as in the media, with headlines drawing attention to figures that show the maternal mortality rate has, at least according to some measurements, doubled in the past two decades.

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