Every state has a committee of medical and public health experts tasked with investigating deaths that occur during and after pregnancy.
But as data paints a clearer picture of the impact that state policies such as abortion bans and Medicaid expansion can have on maternal health, leaders in some states are rushing to limit their review committee’s work — or halt it altogether.
Living in Texas, a state with one of (if not the) highest maternal mortality rates in the country, it’s embarrassing that they simply hide the data that disprove their bullshit stance. My wife and I had a very complicated pregnancy that ended up with my kid being born 6 weeks early and her in the hospital, and this was after years of IVF. We spent thousands getting to the point of having a child and if her life was in danger I would not have given a second thought to protecting her.
It’s to the point where the first thing I did when it was viable was to get a vasectomy because I wasn’t going to even have the potential for those risks in a state that actively hates women.