Births in the U.S. declined again and more pregnant women are going without prenatal care, a CDC report finds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-fewer-babies-born-2023-pregnant-women-missed-prenatal-care-rcna167149

The number of women going through pregnancy without prenatal care is growing — even though the overall number of babies born in the U.S. is falling, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The lopsided trend, published Tuesday by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, may reflect, in part, a growing number of women unable to access OB/GYN care after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

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j4k3@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

No one can afford to live, and we've all been so disenfranchised no one cares to fight the scams any more. Medicine is not even a valid science. Make it 5 sigma instead of 3, and ditch all of the capitalist corruption. The coverage is terrible, the actual benefits are largely overblown. Go through a real chronic life altering injury like I have and the limits become obvious, and the hype, transparent. The cost of care does not align with the services or benefits.

brdweb@lemm.ee · -15 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Bullshit. That ruling had nothing to do with prenatal care

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

I really think conservatives are simply too stupid to understand indirect effects. Why else would somebody write a comment like this?

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Providers don’t realize that, so patients with non viable pregnancies are left to fend for themselves in states with strict laws.