Texas committee won’t examine maternal deaths in first years after abortion ban: Washington Post

Texas Maternal Mortality Committee Skips Reviewing Two Years Of Maternal Deaths

American investigative group ProPublica this week described the fifth case in which a woman died after not receiving the necessary abortion care in a state with a ban on abortion. Three of those deaths occurred in Texas, where providing an abortion is punishable by up to 99 years in prison. The findings suggest local health professionals are reluctant to provide standard care to women whose pregnancies have failed because of the law, opting inst…

Hospital chief blames abortion ban on staff and 'ambiguous' policy

The head of a NSW health service says he believes a policy that was "silent on things" relating to abortion services led to a ban at Orange Hospital.

‘Pro-Life’ Texas Turns Its Back On Maternal Deaths Since Abortion Ban

Any legit pro-life medical review committee would be clamoring to review the skyrocketing rate of maternal and infant deaths in Texas since its abortion ban. That is, unless the forced-birth crowd doesn’t want Texans to know that the “pro-life” law is killing women and babies. The Washington Post: The Texas committee that examines all pregnancy-related deaths in the state will not review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first two years after Texas’…

Texas health committee won't review maternal deaths in 2022, 2023 - Washington Examiner

A Texas health committee that reviews all maternal deaths will not examine cases in 2022 and 2023 — the years directly following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee made the decision during a September meeting, claiming that it would allow the board to review more recent cases of maternal deaths in a timely matter. Many state committees analyzing the death of pregnant mothers, however, oper…

Texas maternal mortality committee to skip over full reviews in years after abortion ban

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In its next meeting on Dec. 6, the Texas Maternal Mortality Committee will begin reviewing death cases from 2024 and will skip over two years of full death reviews. The committee's chair Dr. Carla Ortique made the announcement during a public meeting on Sept. 27. This means maternal mortality rates won't be fully examined from the time period directly after federal abortion laws were overturned in June 2022. "This is not the firs…