Boasting that Iran has similar birth-related mortality rates to Mississippi is ... I don't know what you're trying to prove, actually. Mississippi is one of th

Boasting that Iran has similar birth-related mortality rates to Mississippi is ... I don't know what you're trying to prove, actually. Mississippi is one of the worst states in the US for maternity health; the US is one of the worst countries in the developed world for the same. The comment you're responding to implied that Mississippi was comparable to Iran, and you rebutted that... the data supports that claim.