Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.
  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure how they’re separating the effects of the pandemic from the effects of the abortion ban. Texas banned abortion in 2021 but the dramatic rise in maternal deaths started in 2020 and the number of maternal deaths actually dropped from 2021 to 2022, so that there were fewer deaths in 2022 than there were before the abortion ban in 2020. I suspect that the effect of the abortion ban is actually tiny compared to the effect of covid.

    I’m also not sure what to make of the racial distribution of deaths. Deaths in the black and Hispanic populations dropped back down to near pre-pandemic levels by 2022, but deaths in the white population actually continued to rise.