An interesting topic that the writer starts to tie into the current healthcare debate, but never fully does. Confusing organization and language makes it somewhat hard to follow. For example, the writer says Tatia French's mother needed a C-section--which is not true. There are also several rather glaring grammatical mistakes.

This piece of news on pregnancy related deaths and the increase of mortality did not employ stereotypes. Although the news report did mention that African American mothers are more likely to die from pregnancy related deaths regardless of income level. The article does not go in depth about specific groups, but just in general in California the maternal mortality rate has increased from 5.6 in 1996 to 16.9 in 2006, which is an alarming statistic. This article does not erroenous attribution, all the sources are cited and the relevance of these sources are obvious. This article does not really get to the root cause, it names a few causes such as c-section, but it does not really explain why the increase of mortality is occuring, ... More »

This article run on the New America media website, entitled “Pregnancy-related deaths rise in California,” was written by Nathanael Johnson. This article discusses the shocking new information that the amount of women in California that are dying from a pregnancy-related cause is actually growing. This is shocking information because in society where we have so many new technologies, it is hard to imagine that this rate would grow. In fact, this is the largest spike in pregnancy-related death since the 1930’s, as it is now at about 95 in 500,000 women will die. Although this story does mention that black women have held a higher rate of pregnancy mortality in the past, it also states that this new rise has actually ... More »