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Why are more women dying from childbirth in the U.S.?

Clip: 4/25/2015 | 3m 3s

The Washington Post's Danielle Paquette discusses the U.S.'s maternal mortality rate

The United States is the only advanced economy in the world with an increasing number of women who die in childbirth. In fact, a woman giving birth in the U.S. is twice as likely to die than in Saudi Arabia and three times as likely than in the United Kingdom. Danielle Paquette, a reporter for The Washington Post, joins Alison Stewart to discuss the startling health crisis.

04/25/2015 | Rating NR

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