The Leading Killer of Pregnant Women in America Isn't What You Think
I’ve spent years reporting from places where pregnant women die in ways the world too often doesn’t bother to count — conflict zones, displacement camps, collapsing health systems. I came back to America assuming the numbers here, at least, were being tracked honestly.
They weren’t. Not really.
A study published this year in the New England Journal of Medicine has quietly dismantled one of the most foundational assumptions in American obstetric medicine.
