WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States has scored poorly on a campaign group's list of the best countries in which to be a mother, managing only 28th place, and bettered by many smaller and poorer countries [...]
But the US showing put it behind countries such as the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; and eastern and central European states such as Croatia and Slovenia [...]
A woman in the Unites States is more than five times as likely as a woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece or Italy to die from pregnancy-related causes in her lifetime and her risk of maternal death is nearly 10-fold that of a woman in Ireland, the report said.
And it added: "The United States has the least generous maternity leave policy -- both in terms of duration and percent of wages paid -- of any wealthy nation.
I know that "both parties are the same" and all that hipster crap, but I assure you, the Republicans won't be the ones who solve this. Especially when the woman-hating multiple-divorced de facto leader of the GOP loves to joke about "Femi-Nazis."
h/t Ashby via email