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The Washington Post’s Wonkblog posted the map above illustrating by-county changes in female mortality rates. Red is bad. It means the rate is rising.

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Education and poverty cited as factors. (Sex education anyone? Thinking of yesterday’s installment of the War on Women at the Arkansas legislature.)

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