Here there are no eyes: Every 90 seconds

Every 90 seconds another woman dies from complications related to childbirth and pregnancy. 

The vast majority of these deaths can be avoided with simple access to health care and adequate health education. The simple truth is most women still do not receive either of these. 

Even though the United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, nearing $98 billion, the U.S. still ranks 50th on a global scale for maternal mortality rates, according to United Nation's reports.

Every day 2 to 3 women will die in the United States from complications related to childbirth and pregnancy. Statistically speaking, African-American women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than Caucasian women. This statistic has not improved in the last 60 years.

According to officials, women that are most at risk are women of color, in poverty, Native American and Alaska Natives, and immigrant women. This is in large part to discrimination. Women under the poverty line are twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications. Native American women are also at an alarming 3.5 times greater possibility to receive little, or any, prenatal care than Caucasian women. 

Another factor fueling this problem is that 1 out of 5 American women at a reproductive age are not insured medically. Without insurance, many women will enter into pregnancy with other complications. The ensuing pregnancy will only exacerbate complications.

Plymouth State University Graduate student Azure Neveln thinks the problem lays in the fact that Americans are disinclined to talk about tougher issues, stating, "We don't talk about it enough. We need to get it out in the open where we can see it. We need to simply stop ignoring it." 

Some advocates for better maternal health care think that the United States should simply steal another nation's health care plan. Many eyes are on France for the reason that, arguably speaking, France has the best universal healthcare system.

Kat Fischer, a senior at PSU, argued against this reasoning saying, "Other nations might have better healthcare, but you have to wait much longer to get in. In some countries it takes months to see your primary care giver." Fischer was, however, moved by the overwhelming statistics that the US spends so much on maternal health care with such poor results, stating, "They [U.S.] is simply not good with money, they are not efficient spenders. They need better planning and they need to better use their resources."

The most obvious truth in this matter is the lack of attention that it is getting. Whether you are more apt to help the under-developed countries rise out of their poverty or if you are a firm believer in the motto America first, we are all affected by this inequality, regardless of what walk of life we are from.