The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May)

Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion

Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

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  1. People from Texas get mad when you say Texas has become a shithole under Abbott & Cruz. This is the proof. It’s not Texans, it’s Texas MAGA politicians & courts.

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  2. Who knew this would happen? Everyone medical or intelligent. They banned abortion to get the Christofascist votes so why is anyone expecting the politicians to actually care. What a terrible form of inhumanity has arisen in the US.

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  3. No policy can completely ameliorate the HARM of religiously based abortion bans.

    Banning access to comprehensive EVIDENCE-BASED reproductive healthcare KILLS PEOPLE.

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  4. August 20th, 1916. Septicemia following self-induced abortion. This is real, it is from some genealogy research I did a few years ago. Name hidden to protect the deceased. What's old is new again?

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  5. In Idaho, if your baby dies on utero, you have to go to Oregon when you get sepsis. And only then do the drs hint @ what 2 do 2 survive. Luckily they don't enforce the no crossing the state lines while preg(are you preg if fetus is dead?) yet. Happened to a friend's client's wife.

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  6. Most people don't realize how serious sepsis is and how quickly it can set in. Assuming you survive, you will likely have lifelong side effects or even lose part(s) of your body. You can't claim to be "pro life" and support policies that put people's lives at risk like this.

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  7. Published in May. And the consequences of banning abortion aren’t restricted to only Texas. It affects women in every state. Yet Republicans have only doubled down this year. It seems like every day they launch a new attack. Yet the democrats didn’t insist on a clean ACA! It’s criminal.

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  8. Who knew that letting doctors make medical decisions instead of politicians would have such a positive effect.

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