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A third of U.S. counties don't have a single doctor, nurse, midwife or medical center specializing in maternity care.
More than 2.3 million women of childbearing age lived in one of these counties in 2022 , up from 2.2 million in 2020 .
States with the highest percentage of maternity care deserts tended to be in the Midwest and Southeast.
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