How to Use die in childbirth in a Sentence
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Black moms are more likely to die in childbirth than white moms.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
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Mothers die in childbirth — where often the child died, too.
—Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
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And still, black mothers are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers.
—Lyz Lenz, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
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In the United States, Black mothers are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers.
—Tat Bellamy-Walker, NBC News, 23 May 2022
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Black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 14 June 2022
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Black women are three times more likely than white women to die in childbirth.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2022
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Black women often die in childbirth, and so do their babies.
—Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2020
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Nationwide, Black women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.
—Candice Wang, Popular Science, 4 Aug. 2020
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Given the fetus’ position and the closed condition of the birth canal, researchers have determined the mother did not die in childbirth.
—Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2022
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More:Hundreds of women almost die in childbirth every year.
—Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2021
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On the personal front, Ryan is also still reeling from Alice revealing that her birth mother didn't die in childbirth and is still alive.
—Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2021
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Black people are also more likely to die in childbirth, to die from melanoma, and to develop and die from colorectal cancer than white people.
—Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 9 Apr. 2021
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Over the last two decades, the risk that an Afghan woman will die in childbirth has plummeted, while the life expectancy of an average Afghan woman has increased by almost 10 years.
—Richard Galant, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
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Women who are refused abortions are more likely to have serious health consequences and to die in childbirth.
—Jill Filipovic, The Week, 2 Sep. 2021
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Death rates from breast cancer are 40% higher among Black women compared to white women, for example, while Black mothers die in childbirth at three to four times the rate of white women.
—Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 30 July 2020
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And Black women are nearly three times more likely to die in childbirth or from childbirth complications than white women.
—Amy Eskind, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
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While women in the United States today are 50 percent more likely to die in childbirth than their mothers, that risk is three to four times higher for Black and Indigenous women.
—Anushay Hossain, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Nov. 2021
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Today, American women are 50 percent more likely to die in childbirth than their own mothers were.
—Marina Starleaf Riker, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2021
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These mothers are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women over 20, and also have greater chances of suffering uterine ruptures, preeclampsia and anemia.
—Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 2 July 2022
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Recent studies show that Black children are three times more likely than white children to die after surgery, and pregnant Black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.
—Amber Randall, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2020
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Black women, for example, are almost three times as likely as white women to die in childbirth, a reflection in part of differences in the quality of medical care and of racial bias within the health system.
—New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
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Nationally, Black women are also three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women, and are more likely to experience miscarriage and stillbirth.
—Jaenique Hurlock, National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
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Maxwell said currently there is disparate treatment of Black pregnant women who, research shows, are more likely to die in childbirth than other demographic groups and whose pain is more often ignored.
—Andrea Lopez-Villafaña, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
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Black and Indigenous women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women, regardless of education or socioeconomic factors.
—Julian L. Watkins, STAT, 18 Dec. 2020
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Black mothers die in childbirth at about three times the rate of White women, national data show, while Native American women suffer maternal mortality rates about 2.5 times higher than White women.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
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Women’s reproductive health is also better: Women in countries with low levels of economic freedom are 15 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in countries with high levels of economic freedom.
—Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 6 June 2022
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Black Britons were more likely to be stopped and searched by police, die in childbirth and be excluded from schools, according to data from the think tank, while Black communities have also suffered disproportionally during the coronavirus pandemic.
—NBC News, 1 Apr. 2021
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