this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
144 points (98.6% liked)

Texas

1474 readers
40 users here now

A community for news, current events, and overall topics regarding the state of Texas

Other Texas Lemmy Communties to follow

Sports

BYPASSING PAYWALLS

Rules (Subject to Change)

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world
netburnr@lemmy.world
bloodsangre7@lemmy.world
francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world
144
A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to c/texas@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20021549

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 among black and Hispanic women dropped back down to near pre-pandemic levels by 2022, but deaths among white women actually continued to rise. This is despite the fact that before the ban, white women had legal abortions more rarely than either black and Hispanic women.