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Every year nearly one million American women deliver babies without receiving adequate medical attention.
Babies born to mothers who received no prenatal care are three times more likely to be born at low birth weight, and five times more likely to die, than those whose mothers received prenatal care.
— US Department of Health & Human Services: http://mchb.hrsa.gov/programs/womeninfants/prenatal.htm