What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas abortion ban

[The Blue Flower]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-maternal-infant-health-texas-abortion.html

Here's what they have found
Outcomes worsened for women who experienced pregnancy loss and other serious complications in their pregnancies.

In October, a team of researchers published a study of more than 320,000 pregnancy losses in Texas health care facilities from January 2017 through September 2023. After Texas' near-total abortion ban went into effect in 2022, blood transfusions for women who lost their pregnancies were 15% higher than expected, based on historical trends.

In January 2025, researchers with UTHealth Houston presented research on previable premature rupture of membranes, when a woman's water breaks far too early in pregnancy. In such cases, the fetus rarely survives, while the mother is at risk of infection, bleeding and other serious complications.

The researchers studied outcomes in these patients before and after implementation of the Texas Heartbeat Act, which in September 2021 banned abortion in all but the earliest stages of pregnancy.

[travelingthrulife]

1. What we have learned is that men and the government need to stay out of women's healthcare.

[NotHardly]

2. THIS

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. You got that right 👍

🥳🎉

[Jerry2144]

4. And keep religion out of health care

Number one cause of our problems is people misapplying their religion on others

[chouchou]

6. Amen. (Excuse the pun) Through the ages, women have had to fight the bullshit in the Bible...

...and the Bible bullshit in the men.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. +++Totally THIS

[Roy Rolling]

7. Shared responsibility and authority

Responsibility and authority go together always. When responsible for an outcome or event, authority must exist to make it happen. When given authority, the outcome is someone’s fault or benefit.

Making babies is a shared responsibility, leaving a woman to bear the responsibility alone without the authority to make decisions violates this principle of the universe.

And it should be a shared decision, unless the father is missing or a deadbeat. But the decision should be ranked within the context of a woman’s medical health, an infant’s health, and lastly, society’s benefit based on religion or similar metaphysical belief.

So who has the 20-year child responsibility for a full term birth? That person should have the authority to make her own medical decisions—right or wrong—and not based on someone else’s belief or faith.

This is not a green light to use abortion in place of birth control or common sense. That can be damaging to a woman also, as well as the risk of unwanted children—which can become a 20 year problem for missing/negligent parents and society.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. .

And it should be a shared decision, unless the father is missing or a deadbeat. But the decision should be ranked within the context of a woman’s medical health, an infant’s health, and lastly, society’s benefit based on religion or similar metaphysical belief.

lol no. The decision belongs to the person who carries the pregnancy.