…In maternal mortality rates, that is.
Not just in the U.S.
Not just in the North American continent.
Not just in our hemisphere.
Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and they managed to achieve this without war, disease or famine.
Well, Texas got exactly what it wanted: A de facto stranglehold on supposedly legal abortion rights, and divine judgement on all those wicked wimmin.
This is downright terrible.
They didn’t expand Medicaid, either, so no doubt they got some of those evil POOR women, too.
They also closed ALL Planned Parenthood clinics, even if they didn’t provide abortions. Right: why would you want there to be contraception and prenatal care?
Thank you, Rick Perry and Greg Abbott, you motherfuckers.
This is one of the things that makes me embarrassed to be a Texan.
I’m wondering what the hell they expected to happen? It’s like they don’t believe in simple cause and effect.
Probably more like Dewhurst and Patrick. Governors have very little power to actually enact much of anything; they can veto, but that’s about it. The Lieutenant Governors are the more powerful politicians.
Do we have any nurses or Dr.s that practice in Texas on this board?
Why the hell aren’t the women in Texas fighting back? Get vocal ladies! Fight for your rights instead of shutting up and bearing it all. You hold up half that big Texas sky and you can fight for your rights. Yyou CAN walk away to another state where things are better for you. The ball is in your court.
That is seriously fucked.
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I almost feel like this should come down to negligent homicide or something of that sort.
I don’t know about most women in Texas or any other part of the world, but it isn’t exactly easy to uproot and move to another place. If women are partnered and/or with kids, the decision to move to another state is really bloody difficult, not to mention the actual cost of moving itself.
It also seems fairly likely that most of the women who died in this way are younger and without means. I wouldn’t be surprised if a reasonably large percentage of the women were under 18.
here is a chart of the rate by countries:
Texas would rank worst than Albania, Uzbekistan, Fiji and Oman.
You don’t remember what happened in Texas in 2014?
Anyway, the legislature got it’s way anyway with a law that would have forced all the clinics to close. It took two years for a case to work it’s way to the Supreme Court, which finally overturned that law.
These things don’t happen overnight, (though many Americans childishly think they do, and believe bloviating politicians who promise to do this and that immediately with a wave of their magic wand).
“The reasons for the overall increase in pregnancy-related mortality (in the U.S.) are unclear. The use of computerized data linkages by the states, changes in the way causes of death are coded, and the addition of a pregnancy checkbox to the death certificate in many states have likely improved identification of pregnancy-related deaths over time. Whether the actual risk of a woman dying from pregnancy-related causes has increased is unclear.”
So how much of Texas’ increase in maternal deaths is due to better reporting (if that factor applies), and how much is due to other reasons?
Reducing services to pregnant women can’t be helping.
This isn’t correct.
Here are the PP locations in TX: Health Centers - Texas - Planned Parenthood
From the linked article:
Everything is bigger in Texasistan.
That was then. This is now. They’re going to do it by defunding it. Effective Jan 30.