Please keep studying & publishing ….data is important - not for politicians (they don’t care) but for voters on the fence. Help them see the truth of what they are voting into office.
This is because Texas has so many evangelical Christians and Christians do not care about women because all they need is for women to pop out babies, preferably boy babies. You can blame all Christians for this insanity and cruelty. Ban Christianity from US.
Texas doesn't give a shit about women. After the Dobbs decision, 26,000 women were raped in Texas, and 14,000 of those women ended up pregnant. I guess the governor didn't put a stop to rape after all
Everything Texas - it always seems less than transparent. Whether abortion restrictions - school vouchers - etc etc. publicity stunts - not easy to be blue in this state!
I almost died from sepsis due to a subchrionic clot that broke lose. My baby still had a heartbeat, the sac was still mostly attached, but that wound allowed infection to set in. An emergency abortion saved my life and allowed me to go on to have 2 other children later on. Abortions save lives.
If only they cared enough about women - and indeed children - to take note of these experiences. I'm sorry you went through this and I'm so glad you received the health care you needed. 🫂
They don't care about anyone but themselves. These Christian Nationalists are fucking dumb to think these monsters have the same goals. Their end goal is control. They don't give a fuck about anything but what can benefit their wallets or gain them more power.
Call your Reps and Senators
202-224-3121
Remind the scared cowering lying sacks of shit
If they think ELON will primary them.
Just wait until AMERICA VOTERS
get done with them.
Once that child is born and added to the GDP, those who decry abortion couldn't care less about that child after birth.
American Sharia Law.
Your oppression is their profession
The majority of women voted for Harris. And when you look at who votes for pro-life vs pro-choice candidates, women who don’t want to be parents or can’t afford to be parents lean heavily pro-choice. Women unable to get pregnant due to menopause lean conservative.
Lots of us women who are past menopause have vivid memories of this country pre-Roe and many of us are not conservative. This 68 YO is a flaming leftist.
We may not be able to get pregnant, but we know millions of other women can and we give a damn about them, even if we don't know them.
This is how public schools in Texas die. School boards will close schools and replace with private schools forcing parents to pay into the voucher system. Abbott stole $1B for his voucher program and this is the impact! Abbott is evil! Billionaires impact Texas policy! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YgVPFq/
Oh agreed, my only point was they don't care about the life of the baby, only the birth. Once it's born the mom can toss it in a ditch for all they care.
also i belive that its not about "choice" but about iresponsibility.
It can be seen from the fact that abortion grouos want to kill baby even after it left mother body in case it somehow survive abortion.
An abortion ban doesn’t stop women from going out of state to get an abortion or ordering abortion pills online. Some women, when faced with the possibility of being forced to carry a pregnancy to term, are more likely to make an immediate decision to terminate due to potential lack of choice later.
… would have waited to make a decision about abortion will now feel pressured to travel to another state and abort ASAP, rather than waiting and potentially being at risk of death or lifelong health complications and not being able to obtain an abortion in their state.
Wow you must be a fucking winner in life. You know there are more effective ways to decrease abortions that don’t kill moms. Pro choice isn’t about increasing abortion rates. You know that too. You can’t comprehend being a decent person so you mask your hatred behind the guise of saving babies.
Prochice is all abiut killing babies..that can be seen when you fight for killig babies who miraculy survive abortion. You only pretend that is about woman and her body.
My primary basis for being pro-choice is that no one, person or not, has a right to live inside someone else’s body and live off their nutrients. A fetus has no more right to a woman’s uterus than someone dying of kidney failure has a right to another person’s kidney.
Some people believe that if a baby is born SEVERELY disabled with absolutely no quality of life, and likely to die painfully in hours or days, euthanasia is the most humane option if parents and doctors consent. That’s not even an abortion issue though.
Here we fucking go. Since 2002 the act of killing any baby “born alive” is infanticide. Punishable by law. 240 cases of babies born alive have been reported since. Average life span is 32 minutes. These babies do not live. They would be taken from their grieving mother to be hooked up to machines.
If people can’t safely get an abortion at a clinic, then they’ll use abortion pills, which are easy and legal to obtain. The abortion pill is incredibly safe to use, but ideally it should be used with a follow-up appointment so a doctor can make sure the abortion was complete. If you create a…
… climate where women can’t go to a doctor and report that they’ve had a medical abortion and get an exam without fear of being prosecuted, that’s a problem, and it’s going to lead to more deaths. The abortion pill isn’t the problem, the anti-abortion legislation is.
Texas sure has gotten toxic, hasn't it? I grew up here, now I barely recognize my state since Zuck and Elon started coming around. And for our wheelchair bound governor to abolish DEI? Height of ridiculousness.
How long before it's "DEI" to provide ant healthcare to women? No birth control, can't have chemotherapy or radiation (can destroy fertility), what else?
What's different now, as opposed to 2016, is that private insurers and physician's networks have more access to a broad range of demographic data related to healthcare.
We no longer have to rely exclusively on organizations like the NIH or the CDC for this information
However, if you got to the end of the document you read:
"The federal methodology we used as a basis for our analysis of severe complications in pregnancy hospitalizations was outlined in a document available for download from HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau...."
"The instructions included statistical code that we adapted to do our own analysis, and they were accompanied by a spreadsheet of maternal and child "outcome measures over time for all 50 states and nationally....”
"As of early February, both the instructions and the spreadsheet had been replaced by documents noting that the files were “currently under construction and not available.”"
IOW, important information is being hidden from the public.
Texas is a leading fascist state. Women & children of non-millionaires are sub-humans. No need to expend funds on the replaceable.
Resistance isn't futile.
Revolution is necessary.
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"...because of the language of Texas’ abortion law, some hospitals and doctors were waiting for the fetal heartbeat to stop or the mother to develop a life-threatening illness, whichever occurred first."
Imagine how cruel that is. I'm not blaming doctors who are threatened with prison by the state.
But Propublica is not the only organization who could have published this. Where is our free. Investigative American journalism? When did journalists become nothing more than stenographers?
Trump doesn't care! Women should have voted for Kamala in every state! Lets see if it changes in 2026 when some of these senators are up for re-election.
All eligible military personnel should retire immediately you are about to be screwed all of our overseas bases should be closed and our soldiers brought home they are there for no reason now as we do not Honor our Alliances
The “cowboy“image of Texas men is false. These are weak, punk ass bitches who will let their daughters and wives die unnecessarily. There’s nothing manly in that.
Not every rape results in a pregnancy. So in a 16-mo period after Dobbs over 26K women got pregnant due to being raped, which means a LOT more rapes occurred. How about TX politicians do something to try to PREVENT rapes, instead of further punishing the victims?
Agreed. The problem is the misogynist White-boys club want more of this ... keep women down before they're even a woman. How many in this regime are rapists??
Absolutely hideous to suffer such abuse, then be further traumatised by a bunch of, let's face it, mostly old white men forcing you to carry that child and then being faced with the heart-breaking decision whether to give the baby up for adoption.
And how many of the victims are themselves children?
"Between 2019 and 2023, we found a 33% increase in maternal mortality rates in Texas, compared with a decrease of 7.5% nationally during the same time."
"A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021.
"The analysis also identified at least 120 in-hospital deaths of pregnant or postpartum women in 2022 and 2023 — an increase of dozens of deaths from a comparable period before the COVID-19 pandemic."
People are leaving if I was a women I would think Texas hates women.. also the metropolis area are growing but small towns are becoming ghost towns ..grass is not ever greener on the other side of the fence…
my daughter, who recently graduated college is looking to move out of her home state of Texas because, as she puts it, Texas hates women. I don't think she is the only woman who thinks this
My wife sincerely believes that Texas hates all women. She is glad that her daughter doesn't live here, and can't imagine that any woman of childbearing age would want to risk living here.
yep, it does feel risky. my other daughter lives in Brooklyn and loves it. I worry more about my daughter here in Texas than I do about the one in NYC.
She’s not the only one.
I lived in TX since 2000, in 2016 I had my daughter. In 2021, after seeing trends and intrusive politics, we left for a blue state.
Women everywhere need to take a lesson from Japanese women. Many of them are decidedly to not marry or have children. Now their govt is paying women to have children. Procreation is our superpower.
White sorority girls have the $$$ to fly to colorado for "ski" vacation and access service. Quietly of course, i have witnessed this personally many years ago
Thank you for doing this. We need to gather data. We need proof of their ineptitude and the damage done when we cater to the religious infiltration of our FREE country.
But according to musty hormonal birth control causes obesity, depression and increased suicide ? We can’t win ! It’s shouldn’t matter , as an adult we have bodily autonomy! Or “ had “ autonomy
Thank you for clearly explaining data and methods. I wish we required statistics in high school. I'm no statistician, but at least I had a college course years ago and can follow the discussion. If we made more policy based on such careful analyses instead of polemics, it would be a good thing.
This is going to be a major problem with every policy change in this regime, not just abortion and not just red states. No unflattering stats will be published and the onus will have to be on private public interest orgs or medical assoc's. to track the extent and range of the carnage to come.
Worse, they'll be fudged to prove the incredible success of the Musk/Maga agenda.
In Trumplandia, not recording something or stats just means it never happened.
Recording stats correctly means they will fully document that Trump's policies are all a smashing success.
Putin will be taking notes.
1984 101. The memory hole. Ministry of Truth or some such shit. This is such a "don't learn history and you're doomed to repeat it" situation that it blows my mind. This has all been done before.
Lots of babies born with defects that killed them quickly, leaving grieving, broken-hearted parents with hospital bills and funeral expenses. These children would have been aborted quietly at home had the right-wing zealots not had their way.
"ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. The analysis also identified at least 120 in-hospital deaths of pregnant or postpartum women in 2022 and 2023
Texas did study immigration and murder rates though…shocker, American citizens have a higher rate of murder per 100k than immigrants and illegal immigrants.
The methodology is fascinating. I had no idea de-identified medical records could be purchased from the state. I have a feeling the state is going to get out of the medical data collection and sale business after this.
I am so disgusted by the current regime and people who support it. They call for more births all while telling women they should die to carry to term. This should be a personal choice and is not like any other moral dilemma in life…
The majority of women didn’t vote for Trump. And anywhere a referendum has been put in the ballot for abortion rights, it gets more than 50% of the vote.
The ostrich party. If they don’t like what you are saying they stick there fingers in there ears and go, ‘blah, blah, blah’. Oh, and cover up any data that might cast a bad light on their policies and unconstitutional methods.
These women are septic because their doctors can’t perform abortions on partial spontaneous abortions and preterm rupture of membranes. The prevention of sepsis is d&c’s and d&e’s.
Yes, I understand that but are there any alternatives to this? It seems like the fetal heartbeat at presentation to hospital is making things even worse. Obviously the law is horrific but any possible options to prevent or slow down the sepsis? Just a question. Not endorsing the tx 18th century law.
Antibiotics can’t do a lot if you’re keeping the thing causing sepsis inside the body. And on the topic of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance is becoming more and more of a threat and doing stuff like this isn’t going to help
I’ve worked in obstetrics for 14 years, this isn’t new information for me, and this guideline (meant for term chorioamnionitis) discusses augmentation of labour as the main non antibiotic therapy— which as you’re aware isn’t allowed in Texas for non viable fetus’
I have heard this but curious if there are stats on the numbers that have left. Also wonder how this impacts # or quality of obgyn residents matching. Thx for any thoughts.
I know there are a lot of sane voters in Texas, and all across the nation. But, there are far too many women who forget what their grandmothers, aunts, and own moms had to endure. The Republicans won't stop at taking away bodily autonomy. Right to vote, get a divorce, hold a job....
They don't want any proof that their ban is a dangerous, misguided 'bow to christians' and selective against poor people because we all know that rich texans are going out of state to get the care they need.
The MAGAs at Texas A&M are calling this study a "Left Wing Plot". Of course. Everytime we lose a football game, even if its 59-0 to Alabama, its a "Left Wing Plot".
There are two verses in the Bible dealing with the murder or negligent death of a pregnant woman. The murderer was charged with murder of the wife and fined for the death of the fetus. Therefore an inference can be made that the fetus was not yet considered a person. This was Jewish law of the day.
Texas doesn't study much it seems. At least the Lege an the Gov'nor. But it's dominated by the PODS(Party of Stupid Shits)AKA Republicans who mostly dropped out of school in the 3rd grade.
Good point, but FYI this is a secondary posting with an alternative headline. His original post below had the headline you liked better. It is an important story so no harm in framing it from different angles to get more eyes on it.
Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Dan Patrick, Ted Cruz don't want you to know these things because it cost them "Wealth"!
They are aligned with Donald Trump & Elon Musk to not give a damn about Texans just power & wealth. To hell with women and healthcare!
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Texas is a shit hole state.
That's the message middle aged and older women have for young women.
Luckily I'm in a first world country where a vasectomy cost £0 and they didn't quibble once.
They're cheap. Come in 6 packs on Walmart
FYI - Ammunition/Facts
That is why they refuse to study it.
202-224-3121
Remind the scared cowering lying sacks of shit
If they think ELON will primary them.
Just wait until AMERICA VOTERS
get done with them.
American Sharia Law.
Your oppression is their profession
We may not be able to get pregnant, but we know millions of other women can and we give a damn about them, even if we don't know them.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YgVPFq/
Slow the testing down. We have more positive tests because we test more than the other countries.
You can't have a problem if you ignore all your problems. Nothing to see here, just needlessly risking the lives of women for political points.
ABBOTT BANNED RAPE—
HOW’s THAT GOING?!?!?!?
The reason abortion rates are actually up as a result of these bans, is because if a woman is having a high-risk pregnancy, someone who previously…
It can be seen from the fact that abortion grouos want to kill baby even after it left mother body in case it somehow survive abortion.
What's different now, as opposed to 2016, is that private insurers and physician's networks have more access to a broad range of demographic data related to healthcare.
We no longer have to rely exclusively on organizations like the NIH or the CDC for this information
"The federal methodology we used as a basis for our analysis of severe complications in pregnancy hospitalizations was outlined in a document available for download from HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau...."
IOW, important information is being hidden from the public.
The data is still in the hands of private interests now.
Transparency of coverage (a mandate/statute) was implemented a few years ago, but that does not help in this instance
Resistance isn't futile.
Revolution is necessary.
🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🟧🌍💙
https://Refusefascism.org
Imagine how cruel that is. I'm not blaming doctors who are threatened with prison by the state.
He sued and won after his accident. Now he's working to prevent others from doing the same.
This endless, repetitive spew of lies and misinformation is not 'free speech', it a method for programming humans.
Write
'I will not throw rocks at Sally'
100 times.
Just sayin'
Those inhuman, ignorant TX evangelists cause needless risk & misery to otherwise healthy women.
They aren’t saving fetuses or even babies. They are harming families.
Don't measure outcomes?
Can't identify danger
Women risk being harmed.
Keep fingers on pulse
Document women's health risks
Keep all eyes open.
Women should be filled with RAGE.
And how many of the victims are themselves children?
Not my quote but one that bears repeating 💔
https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-housing-market-home-prices-falling-austin-dallas-moving-trends-2024-10
I lived in TX since 2000, in 2016 I had my daughter. In 2021, after seeing trends and intrusive politics, we left for a blue state.
We should same discuss why Trump's parents misses abortion!
And they obviously failed completely regarding education!
Only everyone in healthcare.
MAGA incels does not care though.
🇮🇪🇪🇺
In Trumplandia, not recording something or stats just means it never happened.
Recording stats correctly means they will fully document that Trump's policies are all a smashing success.
Putin will be taking notes.
BUT THANK YOU!
https://www.cato.org/blog/new-cato-research-shows-illegal-immigrants-are-less-likely-be-convicted-murder-texas
MAGA is sinister, misogynistic & harmful to the people's wellbeing
Governor Abbott (512) 463-2000 Call to express your displeasure while you still have your 1A right to freedom of speach & right to protest
These women could have had a chance at giving birth again, but SCOTUS has taken that away from them or has killed these women!
From ACOG for example: https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2017/08/intrapartum-management-of-intraamniotic-infection
Have another site soon.
*following
Nothing.
Republican Christian Nationalists falsely attribute THEIR own beliefs to Jesus. Shameful!
Thank you!!!
They have made healthcare worse for pregnant people.
https://bsky.app/profile/charlesornstein.bsky.social/post/3limb2idbu22r
They are aligned with Donald Trump & Elon Musk to not give a damn about Texans just power & wealth. To hell with women and healthcare!
I Always say-In the Absence of:
Erection
Penetration
Ejaculation
There would be no rape or accidental pregnancies!
SO-LEGISLATE THE DICKS!!