Texas lawmakers fucked around, and now we’re all finding out.
Since the state’s abortion ban passed in 2021, the state’s rate of maternal mortality cases rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationally, according to NBC News. The Gender Equity Policy Institute took a look at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finding shocking and enraging numbers that reflected increased deaths across all racial groups in women who’ve died while pregnant, during childbirth, or soon afterward.
“There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality,” Nancy L. Cohen, president of the institute, told NBC. “All the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase.”
Among Hispanic women, the rate of maternal deaths increased from 14.5 per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022. For Black women, those rates went from 31.6 to 43.6 per 100,000 live births in the same time period.
Rates among white women nearly doubled — from 20 per 100,000 to 39.1.
Read more at NBC News.
