One of the most dangerous things a woman can do is give birth. In recent years, health officials around the world have been working to reduce this age-old threat to mothers. And as Michael Ollove, a senior health reporter with Stateline revealed in late 2018, there’s good news. “Over the past three decades,” Michael wrote, “the world has seen a steady decline in the number of women dying from childbirth.” The bad news? “There has been a notable outlier,” he wrote. “The United ...
