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Georgia health officials are laying out efforts to stem the tide of increasing deaths among new mothers in the state. Tuesday's discussion before the state Board of Public Health comes as evidence shows death rates from pregnancy have risen more steeply in Georgia that almost any other state. The state’s numbers have found that 113 women died from pregnancy-related causes from 2018 to 2020. That’s 30.2 deaths for every 100,000 live births. A study published last week found that death rates more than doubled in Georgia for white, Black, Hispanic and Asian women between 1999 and 2019. State officials highlighted efforts Tuesday to treat bleeding, high blood pressure, heart problems and mental health disorders.
Jared Schilling stands at the end of a row of narrow gestation crates he no longer uses on his sow farm Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Walsh, Ill. Schilling has made his farm compliant with a California law, taking effect on July 1, that promises to get breeding pigs out of narrow cages that restrict their movement by building larger breeding areas with more room for his sows to move.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Narrow gestation crates, formerly used by Jared Schilling on his sow farm, are seen Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Walsh, Ill. Schilling no longer uses the crates after making his farm compliant with a California law, taking effect on July 1, that promises to get breeding pigs out of narrow cages that restrict their movement. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated across Poland on Wednesday against the country's restrictive abortion law after a woman…
People protest Poland's restrictive abortion law in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday June 14, 2023. Women's rights advocates called for protests in dozens of Polish cities under the slogan "Stop killing us," after a woman in her fifth month of pregnancy died of sepsis, the latest such death since a tightening of Poland's abortion. Banner reads in Polish "It hurts me Poland". (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)