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riversedge

(73,271 posts)
Thu Nov 28, 2024, 08:41 PM Nov 28

Maternal deaths have surged in #Texas since its near-total abortion ban. The state review committee doesn't want to rev


Maternal deaths have surged in #Texas since its near-total abortion ban. The state review committee doesn’t want to review them.




‘Pro-Life’ Texas Turns Its Back On Maternal Deaths Since Abortion Ban

Maternal deaths have surged in Texas since its near-total abortion ban. The state review committee doesn’t want to review them.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/11/pro-life-texas-turns-its-back-maternal



By News Hound Ellen — November 27, 2024

Any legit pro-life medical review committee would be clamoring to review the skyrocketing rate of maternal and infant deaths in Texas since its abortion ban. That is, unless the forced-birth crowd doesn’t want Texans to know that the “pro-life” law is killing women and babies.

The Washington Post:

The Texas committee that examines all pregnancy-related deaths in the state will not review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first two years after Texas’s near-total abortion ban took effect, leaving any potential deaths related to abortion bans during those years uninvestigated by the 23 doctors, medical professionals and other specialists who make up the group.


The decision by the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee was supposedly done to make their review “more contemporary,” and skip over a backlog that will allow “more relevant recommendations to policymakers,” as The Post put it.

It’s hard to think of what could be more relevant and contemporary than looking into pregnancy-related deaths since the abortion ban. Especially since we already know horrific stories of women dying or forced to flee the state after being denied life-saving care, thanks to the law. That's not counting the spike in rape-related pregnancies..............



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Maternal deaths have surged in #Texas since its near-total abortion ban. The state review committee doesn't want to rev (Original Post) riversedge Nov 28 OP
More Contemporary. More relevant. BOSSHOG Nov 28 #1
That baby is Church property! Mopar151 Nov 28 #2
Shit hole. nt The Unmitigated Gall Nov 28 #3
More investigation when a farm animal dies. Irish_Dem Nov 28 #4

BOSSHOG

(40,114 posts)
1. More Contemporary. More relevant.
Thu Nov 28, 2024, 09:10 PM
Nov 28

My oh my ain’t that some 💩

Murder women with conservative values. Well hell I wouldn’t want it investigated either. If I had conservative values. Pro-Life. The life of the cover up.

Mopar151

(10,185 posts)
2. That baby is Church property!
Thu Nov 28, 2024, 09:30 PM
Nov 28

The "liberal" parents idea that a child is their responsibility, and "property", must be disabused!

Irish_Dem

(58,803 posts)
4. More investigation when a farm animal dies.
Thu Nov 28, 2024, 10:18 PM
Nov 28

Veterinarians, local, state, federal officials may look into the unexpected death of
a farm animal.

Young dead women in hospitals, no one cares.

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