Wrong. I claimed that pregnancy no longer has to be life-threatening, as stated by the World Health Organization.
A couple of things here:
First, the WHO link also says: "a working health system with skilled personnel is key to saving these women's lives." The statement that "women need not die in childbirth" is not necessarily aimed at developed nations, which already (at least in theory) have a working health system with skilled personnel. It's addressing the situation of the nations of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where the vast majority of pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths occur (over 85% of the world's total).
Second, the U.S. has an astoundingly high maternal mortality rate (
WHO report), which would seem to imply a problem with the health system. To put things into perspective, about 1 woman in 11 will die "from a maternal cause" in Afghanistan (the highest in the world); that figure is 1 in 2,100 for the United States. BUT that number is 1 in 10,000 in Singapore, 1 in 4,700 in the United Kingdom, 1 in 5,600 in Canada, 1 in 7,100 in the Netherlands, and 1 in 7,400 in Australia.
By international standards, the US is doing pretty well. By developed world standards, the US has a real problem when it comes to taking care of its women of reproductive age: lack of education about and access to family planning; lack of access to antenatal care; increasing lack of access to safe abortion care; and lack of access to quality emergency obstetric and neonatal care--the things the WHO says are necessary to reduce the maternal mortality rate. This is precisely why many in the US perceive current GOP policies as a war on women. The GOP, at both the state and federal levels, is trying to dismantle access to services that could "prevent the vast majority of maternal deaths" (from your WHO link).