Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester. - ThreadSky

tracyjan.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

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vincentj1217.bsky.social•2 days ago

I recommend that women in red states leave for the far freer and safer blue states.

carl3settlemyer.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

mtannenbaum.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is very sadly not a surprising outcome.

jacksprat39.bsky.social•2 days ago

Texas, the other gateway to hell.

tracyjan.bsky.social•2 days ago

When abortion was legal in Texas, the rate of sepsis for women hospitalized during second-trimester pregnancy loss was relatively steady. Then the state’s first abortion ban went into effect and the rate of sepsis spiked.

tracyjan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Forced to wait 40 hours as her dying fetus pressed against her cervix, Josseli Barnica risked a dangerous infection. Doctors didn’t induce labor until her fetus no longer had a heartbeat.

Josseli died.

https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

tracyjan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Physicians waited, too, as Nevaeh Crain’s organs failed. Before rushing the pregnant teenager to the operating room, they ran an extra test to confirm her fetus had expired.

Nevaeh died, too.

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

tracyjan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Health experts, specially equipped to study maternal deaths, sit on federal agencies and state-appointed review panels. But, as ProPublica previously reported, none of these bodies have systematically assessed the consequences of abortion bans.

tracyjan.bsky.social•2 days ago

So @propublica.org set out to do so, first by investigating preventable deaths, and now by using data to take a broader view, looking at what happened in Texas hospitals after the state banned abortion, in particular as women faced miscarriages.

tracyjan.bsky.social•2 days ago

For patients in Texas hospitals who lost a pregnancy, about half were not diagnosed with fetal demise when they were admitted, meaning that their fetus may still have had a heartbeat at that time. Those patients saw a dramatic increase in sepsis after the state banned abortion.

riz4robot.bsky.social•2 days ago

it's a coup

everything is a distraction

impeach the orange POS now

sdrose.bsky.social•2 days ago

All life matters, especially that of the mothers

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