[W]hat it found was a 56% rise in maternal mortality in the state of Texas from the year 2019 to 2022. That’s notable because it’s compared to just an 11% rise in maternal mortality nationwide in the same time period.
According to a new study from the Gender Equity Policy Institute, the number of women who have died while pregnant or from labor complications has risen dramatically in Texas, apparently exacerbated by the state’s abortion restrictions passed in 2021.
The study looks at CDC data from 2019 through 2022 and saw a spike after Texas passed its abortion ban in 2021….
But the thing that was really different here: Texas stood out in that it had SB 8. And we know SB 8 passed an entire year before Dobbs. That was the biggest difference between Texas and the other states that did not see such a major rise in maternal mortality….
[I]t was striking that of that 56% rise in the state of Texas, there was a 38% rise among Black women in the state. There was a 30% rise in maternal deaths among Hispanic women in Texas. Regarding Asian-American women, the numbers were too small and were not included. But what was so striking was a 95% rise among white women in Texas.
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-rises-abortion-ban/
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