{"podcast":{"title":"The Academic Minute","slug":"the-academic-minute-1102038","podcast_index_feed_id":1102038,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/7972926.rss","website_url":"https://www.academicminute.org/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/7972926/3de65ac4cfe10a333128ea1e717f3fde.jpg","author":"Academic Minute","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Astronomy to Zoology","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T14:17:21.893800+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-academic-minute-1102038"},"episode":{"title":"Maria Steenland, University of Maryland - Stark Mortality Difference Between Pregnancy and Abortion","slug":"maria-steenland-university-of-maryland-stark-mortality-difference-between-pregnancy-and-abortion","published_at":"2026-05-27T04:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-academic-minute-1102038/maria-steenland-university-of-maryland-stark-mortality-difference-between-pregnancy-and-abortion","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-academic-minute-1102038","url":"https://www.academicminute.org/p/maria-steenland-university-of-maryland","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198852633/efaee79bea68b5f5aa17a562ad17cad7.mp3","summary":"There are stark mortality differences between pregnancy and abortion. Maria Steenland , assistant professor of family science in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland , explores this. Faculty Bio: Dr. Steenland is an Assistant Professor in Family Science in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a health services and health policy researcher focused on maternal and reproductive health policy in the United States. Her research useseconometric methods to evaluate maternal and reproductive health programs and policies, with a particular focus on Medicaid policy. The overarching goal of her research is to identify policy options to increase the equity and quality of women’s health services. Her previous researchhas examined the effect of Medicaid payment policies for immediate postpartum contraception, and expansions of Medicaid eligibility in pregnant and postpartum populations. Transcript: After Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June of 2022, some advocates and academics expressed concern that abortion bans would harm maternal health. They argued that banning abortion could increase maternal mortality in part because the risk of death from childbirth is much higher than the risk from abortion. Continuing a pregnancy places significant physiologic stress on the body, which can lead to life-threatening complications, such as hemorrhage, sepsis, stroke, and heart failure. A prior study, using data from 1998 through 2005, found that the risk of death from childbirth was about 14 times greater than the risk of death from abortion. In the years since that estimate, the measurement of maternal death has improved, increasing the number of pregnancy-related deaths…","meta_description":"There are stark mortality differences between pregnancy and abortion. Maria Steenland , assistant professor of family science in the School of Public Heal…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":150,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-academic-minute-1102038/episodes/maria-steenland-university-of-maryland-stark-mortality-difference-between-pregnancy-and-abortion/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-academic-minute-1102038/maria-steenland-university-of-maryland-stark-mortality-difference-between-pregnancy-and-abortion.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}