Investigate maternal deaths Re: “Deaths of new mothers up 40% — Statistics are sign of a poor health care system, professor says,” Wednesday news story. Advertisement It is appalling that in both this time and this country the rate of deaths of new mothers is increasing instead of decreasing. How can we allow this to happen? Advertisement Politicians are so focused on what are really trivial issues, and seem to ignore problems that are actually life and death. Missing from the story (I thought) was what effect defunding Planned Parenthood had on the new mother death rate. I know people...