Delivery Notice

“We’re more than a decade into a severe maternal mortality crisis in the United States, and access to hospital-based maternity care has continued to decline over that entire time period.” Sarah Kliff in the NYT: Most Rural Hospitals Have Closed Their Maternity Wards, Study Finds. And here’s what makes news of these closures even more dire. They took place before the abortion bans. “Because its data runs only through 2022, the study does not account for the additional challenges that hospitals have faced since the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade that year and led many states to restrict abortion. States with abortion bans have experienced a sharp decline in their obstetrician work force.”