Rural women in Missouri must travel to get their care. Women living in maternity deserts — over 40% of the counties in Missouri — have to travel 3.6 times farther than women living in areas with full access to maternity care. thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...
At a time when advanced care is readily available in general, they're going with god care which is just plain negligent.
I was lucky in that I only had to drive an hour to deliver, but I was amazed when a friend in the city said she WALKED to the hospital to deliver...she has more than one hospital within walking distance.
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For real omg
I'll never understand why people vote against their own self interest. These women deserve more. My daughter worked in a health clinic in Malawi this summer and their maternity care seems to be the same as rural America. How did we let this happen?
Rural Americans live lives with elements often found in third world countries
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It’s what they want
I can't imagine. My 1st time was barely 4hrs between "is that a contraction?" & holding the baby in my arms. 3rd time, I lived 10min from the hospital. By the time a friend drove from the hospital to my house to babysit, and then I drove to the hospital, I nearly had the kid in the parking lot.
An hour! And your friend WALKED!? I just read about the awful infant mortality rates about Mississippi and knew you would understand this immediately
In KS, I know a couple who had to travel an hour and a half to get to the maternity ward for delivery. This can mean a need to induce delivery, an additional cost for travel/food, more time off work, & safety for the mom/newborn. Also, issues if it's an at risk pregnacy/baby has complications.
Elections have consequences
Honestly, this has been a disaster for over two decades in this state.
And they keep electing them…
Missourians would much rather own the libs than have a functioning government.
That’s exactly correct. I understand they are gerrymandered AF, but they still elect a republican governors, Lt. governors, attorney generals, BOTH senators and the president. I blame dems for the situation as well by giving up on the rural communities.
For-profit health systems have little motivation to provide services in poor, rural areas. The misinformation about government funded healthcare is mind boggling.
These life threatening policies proudly brought to you by the GOP. Do yourself and those around you a favor and VOTE BLUE!
and guess what their traveling to those care centers does to getting in your appointments when there are too many patients for one place?
Obviously women need to stop breeding with rural men. Easy peasy.
Missouri women thought of this way too late, or not at all. Family values pushes women into marriage and baby making. What marriage and baby making does is place women in danger, impoverishes women and compromises their health. Republican women are not winning.
Missouri is a true shithole state and as someone who traveled for 30 years (job related) one of the 2 or 3 most racist states I visited.
Kansas is the same!
The hospital I worked in from 2005-2018 in southeast Missouri was closed by a corporate decision. Not profitable enough. Those women now drive an hour or more, or deliver in Arkansas or Tennessee.
But have more babies, they say.
This is the stuff that burns me - where are all the damn PRO LIFE people at ??? They don’t seem to be protesting this kind of stuff?
#Arkansas is the same most travel over 80 to 100 miles to receive care. Small Rural hospitals will transport immediately. Costing more. The outcome is this!
Sounds like a third world developing nation problem…oh wait!?
That’s what happens when you put the church in charge of your healthcare.