Deadly Deliveries: A Paste BN Investigation

More than 50,000 women are severely injured during childbirth each year in the United States. About 700 mothers die. Paste BN investigates why the U.S. is the most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world.

Part 1: Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it.

• How hospitals are failing moms, told in graphics 
• ‘I am one of the 50,000.’ These women want you to hear their stories
• High blood pressure shouldn’t be fatal, but for this new mom it was

Part 2: What states aren’t doing to save new mothers’ lives 

Part 3: Hospitals blame moms when childbirth goes wrong. Secret data suggests it’s not that simple.

• Why we’re revealing secret childbirth complication rates 
• Childbirth complication rates at maternity hospitals 
• Episiotomies are risky, yet dozens of hospitals are doing too many