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by dredmorbius 3186 days ago
A survey or count of maternity words, or labour & maternity centres, or ... whatever else they're called now ... is rather hard to come by.

This long HuffPo piece profiling the problem ... manages to specifically fail to answer that question, though it does note that "more than half of all rural counties in this country are now without a single local hospital where women can get prenatal care and deliver babies."

https://outline.com/JPgKaS

This list suggests there are 1627 rural counties in the US. So at least 814 of them lack a birthing facility (hospital, clinic, etc.) of some stripe.

http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201410_cfpb_final-list-ru...

There are 3,142 counties total in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_counti...