Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.
The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds.
From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period, according to an analysis by the Gender Equity Policy Institute. The nonprofit research group scoured publicly available reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and shared the analysis exclusively with NBC News.
“There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality,” said Nancy L. Cohen, president of the GEPI. “All the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase.”
“Texas, I fear, is a harbinger of what’s to come in other states,” she said.
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How very pro-life of Texas.
I think there’s been some confusion here. They’re pro-life, but only their life. For everyone else, you get a thought and maybe a prayer and a “well, it must have been god’s will”.
Wrong. They’re pro death. Be it reproductive healthcare, healthcare in general, law enforcement, gun control, environmental policy, you name it. Every single one of their policies is designed to get people killed.
So as someone who grew up in a very very Republican family, that’s only half true.
They’re not pro-life or anti-life, they’re sublimely indifferent because they’re certain they’re immune to the consequences.
They’re not going to have a pregnancy that risks the life of their wife. They’re not going to end up unemployed and without health insurance. They’re not going to get arrested for a crime. They’re not going to have a shooting kill their kid. And so on.
It’s a weird mix between ostrich syndrome and just plain denial of reality: they live in a zone where nothing bad will happen to them, but on the off chance it does, it happened because they deserved it.
Being republican requires a lot of the same worldview that being abused by a narcissist requires, which makes the fact Trump is STILL popular a lot easier to understand, IMO.
And, to make it worse, even if a horrible thing happens, they’ll STILL refuse to change their views, because well, what are the odds it’d ever happen again? They’re sure it won’t, so they’re safe.
As a far too personal experience, my 13 year old cousin got his uncle’s gun, and ended up shooting and killing himself accidentally.
Now you, a normal rational person, might go ‘holy fuck! we shouldn’t have guns left laying around where any kids could possibly ever get them!’, and I’d agree.
I’ll let you guess exactly what the rest of my family did, instead.
You can’t change their minds, because you cannot argue against blind faith that nothing bad will happen, or at least it won’t happen twice.
So yeah, their policies will kill lots of people, but it won’t kill their family, so that’s not even a factor in their thinking because you don’t matter to them.
Yeah they’re pro death of other people but that doesn’t change my point.
Not even their life with how they actively try to destroy their own life.
Pro pain
It’s the only actually consistent thing they do.
Evangelicals are big into the redemptive suffering bit, so making their own lives miserable at least aligns with their stated beliefs. (Nothing else does, though.)
This is what peak pro-life looks like.
The thing that all the experts and everyone who’s informed on this topic said was going to happen ended up happening? I’m so surprised! 😱
Like everyone who’s ever delt with a wanted, but dangerous failed pregnancy said would happen.
But I don’t think Texas Republicans are upset this is happening at all. Two outcomes they are probably extremely happy about.
African-American expectant mothers were already dying in child birth at double the rates of everyone else in Texas, now that all death rates have doubled, their rate of death is significantly high.
Secondly, and the intention of all these cut backs into women’s basic human rights. OBs are saying their patients are entirely fearful of what the government could do to them if they have any complication during pregnancy.
Terrifying women it’s what they wanted. Terrified women are much easier to control and abuse. No more divorce? Only having human rights if they’re married to a white man? This is great for creating an ethno state.
It’s almost like it should be doctors determining a woman’s medical care instead of some “religious” old white men pretending to be taking some kind of moral high road by interpreting their “faith” 100% in the way that benefits them.
We need to start removing laws based on religion, and start respecting the separation of church and state. And if these officials cannot, they should be removed from office.
Working as intended buy these “pro-life” fools.
Shocking! Most predictable event comes to pass
Who would have said that?!
Oof… knowing it was bound to happen doesn’t lessen the impact once you see the real numbers. We’ve gotta fix this shit
There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality
As much as I want to see data that demonstrates this, there is a very obvious other explanation for a staggering increase in maternal mortality in the years 2020 and 2021. And the mortality rate went down in 2022.
Keep following the data but also stay wary of clickbait.
They’ve made the correlation to race very clear though. But to show the effect of abortion bans, they need to compare between states with bans and states without bans.
Except you’d also have to factor it county-by-county with how long it would take to drive to a state where there is no ban.
It’s the same with guns. If your neighbor won’t ban it, it’s not really a ban. It’s an inconvenience charge that only the rich can afford to pay.
