Category: Demand Dignity

  • Maternal mortality in the US

    Submitted by Dan Johnson, AIUSA Legislative Coordinator for Oregon (adapted from Amnesty International USA Issue Brief, No. 3, February 2010) Over half a million women die each year from complications due to pregnancy and childbirth. The vast majority of maternal deaths occur in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Among industrialized nations, however, the United States has…