Babies pay for Detroit's fall with mortality above Mexico

Babies pay for Detroit's fall with mortality above Mexico | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Detroit’s 60-year deterioration has taken a toll not just on business owners, investors and taxpayers.
It’s meant misery for its most vulnerable: children and the women who bear them.
While infant mortality fell for decades across the U.S., progress bypassed Detroit, which in 2012 saw a greater proportion of babies die before their first birthdays than any American city, a rate higher than in China, Mexico and Thailand. 
Pregnancy-related deaths helped put Michigan’s maternal mortality rate in the bottom fifth among states.
One in three pregnancies in the city is terminated."
“Detroit is a bad place,” said Crystal Cook, 20, as she waited for an appointment at Scotsdale. 
Men in the city are “out of control. 
Most of them don’t have jobs, most of them couldn’t provide. 
Basically in Detroit, women have to do everything themselves.”