I'm not talking about premature birth or lack of prenatal care. I'm talking about mothers walking into the hospital and dying there, or their babies dying, or both.

But you cant say the US has one of the highest infant/maternal mortality rates in the world and just put it down to the fact that they have a high rate of birth intervention based on some sort of gut feeling. You need to actually look at the real reasons behind the mortality rate. It isnt interventions. Yes, they do contribute a percentage but overwhelmingly, it is due to the totally shyte US healthcare system wherein impoverished women cannot access adequate prenatal or obstetric care. They also have a much, much higher rate of SIDS and infanticide (which is taken into account in the numbers because it includes the first year of a child's life.)