Meanwhile, the current crop of anti-abortion laws are so draconian they are literally killing pregnant women!!
Rates of pregnancy-related sepsis and deaths grow in Texas after abortion banFeb. 20, 2025
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.
The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found. . . .
ProPublica zoomed out beyond the second trimester to look at deaths of all women hospitalized in Texas while pregnant or up to six weeks postpartum. Deaths peaked amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and most patients who died then were diagnosed with the virus. But looking at the two years before the pandemic, 2018 and 2019, and the two most recent years of data, 2022 and 2023, there is a clear shift:
In the two earlier years, there were 79 maternal hospital deaths.
In the two most recent, there were 120.
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... Diving deep into individual cases can reveal the timeline of treatment and how doctors behave. “When you see them together, it tells a really compelling story that people are dying as a result of the abortion restrictions.”
Texas has no plans to scrutinize those deaths. The chair of the maternal mortality review committee said the group is skipping data from 2022 and 2023 and picking up its analysis with 2024 to get a more “contemporary” view of deaths. She added that the decision had “absolutely no nefarious intent.”
“The fact that Texas is not reviewing those years does a disservice to the 120 individuals you identified who died inpatient and were pregnant,” said Dr. Jonas Swartz, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University. “And that is an underestimation of the number of people who died.”
group is skipping data from 2022 and 2023 and picking up its analysis with 2024 to get a more “contemporary” view of deaths. She added that the decision had “absolutely no nefarious intent.”
Total bs. They know that blood is completely on their hands. There would be no other reason to omit those years.
The United States has a maternal mortality rate rivaling any undeveloped, "third world" country.
But here, it’s all about "nefarious intent", because the neglect is intentional. 🥺
@Crazywaterspring And he sees this as something women will be happy about ? I wouldn’t be surprised if his next step is decriminalizing rape. Well, maybe his supporters will be okay with that. 🙁
