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.
Texas … refused to review 2022-2023 cases, citing a backlog.
“There’s too many cases of maternal death, so we’re just going to stop looking at them.”
Good job, Texas.
It worked for Florida with COVID.
Gun violence, too.
"Lalalala can’t hear you "
People suck sometimes, so glad I live in a very blue area with good community
Rape kits
Yeah I was about to say, pretty on brand.
Like the hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits that piled up over the decades.
Boxes about the size of a hardcover book each held evidence of a reported sexual assault – dried swabs of saliva and semen and blood, strands of hair, debris scraped from under fingernails. Each was collected from a person, most of them women and girls, during an hours long exam. And each was shelved without being processed for DNA. The evidence crowded storerooms, tangible proof of law enforcement’s failure to support victims and hold rapists accountable.
Testing the kits was supposed to be the first step in righting that wrong. In some places that received federal grants, not even that happened.
At least a dozen grant recipients carved out exceptions to testing, leaving kits unprocessed for a second time. In one California county, officials boasted they had cleared their backlog, but only after deeming more than half of their kits ineligible for testing.
In many cases, officials have done little beyond sending the kits to a lab, reviewing the results and again closing the files. In Maryland, according to a state report, some law enforcement agencies have shown “significant reluctance” to reopen investigations and have even stated outright that they are disregarding DNA matches.
What’s more, some officials all but abandoned the idea of providing victims answers about what happened to their rape kits or apologies for how long testing took. One Kansas police agency has tried to reach just 17 victims from roughly 1,100 sexual assault kits. An official there said there are instances where DNA testing has identified the names of suspects for the first time but the victims have not been told, because officials don’t think their cases can be prosecuted.
if covid taught us anything, it’s that the easiest way to make a problem “go away” is to stop collecting data about it
Ah yes, the too retarded to fail strategy.
Downvoting this is retarded.
Lol
I don’t think I’ll be on the right side of history here, but we’re gonna do it for science.
Well shit boss, we made it.
We are taking back the R word!
No we’re only allowed to make fun of dumb (unable to speak) and lame (unable to walk) people.
That’s fucking retarded.
Literally 1984
Like Trump’s drone strikes
You can’t make an omelette without killing lots of women.
If they were worried about birth rates before…
It’s all ideology. They scream about not having enough white babies and then do one more thing to make the birthrate drop. But all that proves is the insidiousness of the other side. Gotta keep doubling down.
You’re acting like women in red states have a choice about the matter.
I’m saying you can’t get pregnant if you’re dead.
Red states have had the highest maternal mortality before the abortion ban/restrictions.
Just adding to the pile of bodies.
I hear CEO bodies are piling up.
Removed by mod
Well, maybe in time. One can dream.
They say these things come in threes.
Hopefully three—thousand
if there isn’t already a mutual aid network then start one. Women need to leave states where they have less rights than a dog while they still have the right to leave.
Not everyone has the means and opportunity to pack up and leave a shitty state.
if there isn’t already a mutual aid network then start one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid
Give them the means and opportunity
They’re saying it’s our job to get them out.
A good chunk of them asked for this
intelligence is not a pre-requisite for treating someone with dignity.
I didn’t say it was. Still, I’m not pulling a swimmer out of the pool. They’re not drowning. They jumped in on purpose.
You would have sounded better if you said they wouldn’t leave
that’s what I took swimmer to mean
We still try to help suicidal people even thought it’s their choice.
Suicidal people have mental health issues, this is why we help them.
Republican voters are just stupid. Last I checked, being a dumbass is not a recognized mental disease.
The age gap is steep. Lots of Republican women are post-menopausal.
Which is still ridiculous, because whether they know it or not republicans consistently undermine access to healthcare, which makes peri and post menopause treatment and symptom management harder to get. Menopause is no fucking joke. That shit can fuck your life up.
Like all Republicans, they are voting against their own interests…and I don’t know if anything can convince them to stop doing that.
- IDF Apologist
53% of white women are ok with this.
Until it affects them, of course.
So…many…faces…
Belome wants more faces!
Is the updated version worth it? I loved that game as a kid, but can’t find it in me to fork over $60 just to play with better graphics.
I had fun with it. I haven’t finished all the bonus bosses after beating the game. The graphics were well done and the game play was as enjoyable as ever. They added some new super moves which was cool.
This was one of my first games as a kid and was a defining experience for my childhood. I’ve replayed the original a lot over the years.
The remake did not disappoint. Highly recommend. =D
Also the Super Mario Guy RPG series. From what I recall they didn’t finish. But, what they did finish was really well done. The Family Guy voices are spot on. And it’s really funny.
Oh and the puzzles in Bowser’s Castle are now playable. Like, the ball clearing puzzle is actually a lot of fun when the inputs work.
As a big fan of the original, I loved it. It’s pretty much a perfect remake. It does have new post-game content, but $60 is still pretty steep if you’ve played the original. I’d wait for a sale or get it used.
What the heck is going on here haha
We’re going to need a leopard breeding program so there’s more food competition so they can stay lean and healthy.
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.”
To be fair, they can get away with this just because the anti-choice stance is so ravenous they have a self-righteous-sized blind spot for preventable suffering of others.
Sadly, this won’t be covered broadly enough or penetrate the bubbles it needs to for opinion to change. Even in 2024 only 9% of voters listed abortion as their most important issue. Where 48% listed inflation, “the economy”, or immigration as their most important issue. Draw from that what you will, but I don’t think the average voter understands the … externalities of strong anti-abortion measures.
Thank goodness none of them were CEOs!
Piles!
