Investigating America's High Maternal Death Rate

Reporters Nina Martin and Renee Montagne join us to discuss their new piece, “The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth." The NPR/ProPublica collaboration explores how the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, even though the majority of them are preventable. The piece investigates how hospitals care for new mothers, and looks into the case of a 33-year-old neonatal nurse who died 20 hours after giving birth to her first child.