Summary
Republican-led states with near-total abortion bans are delaying or halting maternal mortality reviews, raising concerns about efforts to conceal rising deaths.
Texas, where maternal deaths rose 56% from 2019 to 2022, refused to review 2022-2023 cases, citing a backlog.
Investigations found multiple preventable deaths tied to abortion bans, such as Porsha Ngumenzi, who died after being denied miscarriage care.
Georgia fired its entire Maternal Mortality Review Committee after leaks about preventable deaths.
Critics argue these actions aim to suppress evidence linking abortion bans to maternal fatalities, delaying accountability for years.
This is what they want. Getting pregnant in red states is literally too dangerous. Their birth rate is going to hot rock bottom in the next 4 years. Women communicate about this stuff, so even if the government isn’t reporting on it but the rates are so high every women will eventually know someone personally that died because of these bans.
They’re not targeting us, they’re targeting future women that won’t know anything about rape, sexual assault, sex Ed, etc. once they complete dismantling the education system. If this trend continues, they’re gonna get what they want. Organize, and be vocal outside of lemmy. Yes we’re all talking about it, but no one else is. Talk about it, be unfriended, stand up or shut up.
And as a quick aside, imagine being such a colossal pussy, that you have to dictate what other people do because you’re afraid of women and or your own sexuality. These are the people we’re talking about about. I used to think that “oh no one is better than anyone else” but we absolutely have to be better than these people. They’re fucking monsters and they’re going to keep ruining our shit.
And then it will be normal and not a big deal
That’s my concern. It’ll go the way of climate change and school shootings.
The narrative will shift from “it doesn’t happen” to “there’s nothing we can do to stop it” to “why even bother? It’s normal so it’s not a big deal.”