from Jessica Valenti:
Post-Dobbs Deaths
A new study from the Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI) found that women are twice as likely to die during pregnancy in states with abortion bans. Twice as likely.
Meanwhile, maternal mortality in pro-choice states fell 21%. One stark comparison from the study: Texas’ maternal mortality rate was 155% higher than California’s.
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on #DrugUse, #MaternalMortality, #ClimateChange and More
The survival of that data is now in doubt, as a result of the #DOGE's comprehensive assault on the federal bureaucracy. By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality
Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.
In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.
“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.
Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.
#Trump admin to cut funds to #PlannedParenthood
The #nonprofit said that 9 of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as #TitleX, which has supported #healthcare services for the #poor since 1970.
#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #BirthControl #AbortionIsHealthcare #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/
‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-medical-research-funding-maternal-mortality #Trumpadministration #Maternalmortality #USdomesticpolicy #Women'shealth #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Pregnancy #Society #Health #USnews #Women
Are #Abortion #Bans Across America Causing #Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out. #WomensHealthcare n states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to #death, succumbed to fatal #infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies. https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-bans-deaths-state-maternal-mortality-committees #privacy #healthcare #civilliberties #legalresearch #states #healthcare #miscarriage #maternalmortality
"The relative lack of midwives in the US is often cited in tandem with the nation’s higher #MaternalMortality rate: 30.34 per 100,000 in the US in 2021 compared to 4.5 per 100,000 in the UK. Many factors contribute to the maternal mortality in the US, the highest in the industrialized world. ...40 percent of mothers in the US don’t see an obstetrician for follow-up care postpartum. Structural racism leads many mothers of color to receive substandard care..." JSTOR https://daily.jstor.org/call-the-midwives-assuming-any-are-left/
States with extreme abortion laws have a 7% higher maternal death rate.
These bans kill women.
For 40 hrs, the anguished 28-yr-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.
3 days after she delivered, #JosseliBarnica died of an infection.
#JosseliBarnica grieved the news as she lay in a #Texas hospital bed on Sept 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this #pregnancy.
The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 wks #pregnant & a #miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records.
A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “#Crime” to Intervene in Her #Miscarriage at a #Texas Hospital
#JosseliBarnica is 1 of at least 2 pregnant TX women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the #FetalHeartbeat stopped.
#law #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensHealth #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveRights #AbortionRights #MaternalMortality #BodilyAutonomy #agency #Vote #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
Texas maternal mortality is up 56% since the end of Roe. (Vs 12 % overall, in America).
- Joy Reid, just now on MSNBC
#usPol #usPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
#maternalMortality #misogyny #hate
#abortionIsHealthcare
"Before the legislators voted, they knew their #law could harm other aspects of reproductive #healthcare. There was a well-publicized outcry from physicians about the proposal.
The decision to pass it anyway reveals a callousness toward maternal #health from a movement whose supporters claim to be #pro-life. #Louisiana already has one of the highest #MaternalMortality rates in the country... These laws will exacerbate a terrible maternal health #crisis on the ground."
"Two medications, #mifepristone and #misoprostol, are commonly known as the FDA-approved drug regimen for medication #abortion, but they are also lifesaving drugs used for #pregnancy complications. #Doctors rely on one or both of them to stop postpartum hemorrhage and to manage miscarriages, as well as to induce labor."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/24/louisiana-controlled-substances-mifepristone-misoprostol/
#VicePresident #KamalaHarris' emphasis on #maternal #health pays dividends with #Black #women #voters.
Harris is seeing a surge of #support from #Black #women #voters, galvanized in part by her work on #healthcare #issues such as #maternalmortality, #reproductiverights, and #guncontrol.
Their #enthusiasm may be #key for #Democratic #turnout at the #polls in critical #battlegroundstates.
"From 2019-2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in #Texas rose by 56%, compared w/just 11% nationwide during the same time period...
“There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in #MaternalMortality,” said Nancy L. Cohen... “All the #research points to Texas’ #AbortionBan as the primary driver of this alarming increase.”
“Texas, I fear, is a harbinger of what’s to come in other states,” she said."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631
VP Kamala Harris wants to reduce maternal morbidity rates. She introduced the "Maternal CARE Act" as a Senator.
Parts of the Act are in the 2022 "Build Back Better Act" which expands access to and makes new investments in maternal care.
#100ReasonsToVoteHarris2024 #YesWeKam #HarrisWalz2024 #MaternalMortality #MaternalMorbidity #MaternalDeath
Via #CBS News' #FaceTheNation
CBS: You talk about the #SanctityOfLife. Your state has one of the highest #MaternalMortality rates. Why don't you want those moms to get care for a full 12 months instead of just 60 days?
Sanders: I disagree with the premise of your question...
#Healthcare #WomensRights #WomensHealth #SarahHuckabeeSanders #Arkansas
Video courtesy of: #AaronRupar
