AMERICA’S CHILDBIRTH CRISIS: MOTHERS ARE DYING AND NO ONE CARES
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America spends $111 billion on childbirth every year, yet more mothers die here than in any developed country. This is the truth no one wants to talk about.
More women die giving birth in the United States than in any other developed nation. Read that again. In the richest, most powerful country in the world, women are dying simply for trying to bring life into it. And we don’t talk about it. We bury it. We cover it with flowers, baby showers, and sterile hospital smiles. But underneath? Trauma. Blood. Silence.
Let me be clear from the start: this is not a tragic accident. This is a deliberate, systemic failure. One that costs lives and inflicts invisible scars on thousands of women every single day.
America pours $111 BILLION a year into childbirth. That should make us the safest place in the world to have a baby. But instead, we rank dead last. Women lie on hospital beds praying to survive a “routine” delivery. Their stories go untold. Their pain is dismissed. Their rights stripped. This is a war zone disguised as a maternity ward.
It starts with control. With stripping women of their power the second they walk through those hospital doors. You think you’ll be supported? You’ll be managed. Monitored. Hooked up. Told to lie flat on your back—the very position that makes labor longer, more painful, and more dangerous. That’s not just opinion. It’s basic physiology.
Lying on your back compresses your vena cava, restricts blood flow, reduces oxygen to the baby. Yet it remains standard protocol. Why? Because it’s easier for them. For the doctors. For the nurses. Not for you.
You want to scream? Scream. You want to move? They’ll strap you down. You want to push when your body tells you? Not until they say so.
Then comes Pitocin. That innocent-sounding drip in your IV bag? It’s a synthetic hormone used to induce or accelerate labor. Sounds helpful, right?
Wrong. Pitocin can cause contractions so violent, so unnaturally intense, they deprive the baby of oxygen. Lead to fetal distress. Rupture uteruses. Trigger emergency C-sections. And worst of all, no one tells you. No informed consent. No real discussion. Just: “We’re giving you something to help move things along.”
It’s a lie. A pretty one. But it hides a monster.
Why are we so quick to turn birth into a medical emergency? Because it makes money. Because the more interventions, the more billable hours, the more insurance codes, the more pharmaceutical sales.
Birth has become a business.
And in that business, your trauma is profitable. Your suffering? It’s just a line item. A number in the hospital ledger. That’s why episiotomies are still being performed without consent. Why black women are THREE TIMES more likely to die in childbirth. Why we rank 55th in the world for maternal mortality.
That’s not the price of progress. That’s the cost of indifference.
Some of you might think this is too dramatic. Too angry. Let me ask you something:
If one in every 4,000 airplane passengers died in flight, would you board a plane? Would you call that dramatic? Or would you demand answers?
Mothers in America face odds that shame our supposed greatness. And the system doubles down on silence. It silences doulas. It shames midwives. It mocks home births. It institutionalizes pain. It normalizes trauma.
I’ve sat across from women who told me they felt their soul leave their body while being stitched up without anesthesia.
I’ve heard new mothers whisper, “I don’t feel like I survived. I feel like I escaped.”
And yes, I believe in this country. But loving a country means holding it accountable. I will not wrap the flag around a crime scene and call it patriotism.
What needs to change?
Everything.
- Listen to women.
- Respect bodily autonomy.
- Ban non-consensual procedures.
- Bring midwives and doulas back into the room.
- Stop pathologizing birth like it’s a disease.
- STOP PUTTING PROFIT ABOVE LIVES.
And expectant parents—you need to know your rights.
You have the right to:
- Decline interventions.
- Choose your birthing position.
- Have a birth advocate or doula present.
- Request a nurse who respects your wishes.
- Refuse Pitocin, episiotomies, forceps, and anything not clearly explained to you.
Hospitals exist to serve you, not the other way around.
But they will not volunteer this truth. You must claim it. Fight for it. Demand it.
We are the only developed nation where maternal death rates are rising. Where women go in to give birth and come out broken, haunted, or not at all.
And we dare to call ourselves the land of the free?
If our freedom does not include the right to a safe birth, it is no freedom at all.
I am writing this not just as an advocate, not just as someone who gives a damn, but as an American who still believes in what we could be.
We can change this. But it starts with calling out the truth, even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.
Because women are dying. And no one cares.
Until now.
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