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Saving Women's Lives: U.S. Maternal Health Resolution

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

October 3, 2008 - 6:41pm

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Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) reached across the aisle to pass Senate Resolution 616 that focuses attention on the crisis of maternal health in this country. The U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates of any industrialized nation and ranks 41st worldwide.

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