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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

www.propublica.org Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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1d ago

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

www.propublica.org /article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis

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Oh, they know. It’s supposed to kill women.
- "they shouldn't have gotten pregnant then "
  It's always victim blaming.
- Yup, or at the very least, scare the women into submission.

Septic pregnancy wards in hospitals were common before safer abortion methods were introduced, guess we're going back there again

Surely this isn’t related. Most be something Biden did.

- https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/analysis-suggests-2021-texas-abortion-ban-resulted-in-increase-in-infant-deaths-in-state-in-year-after-law-went-into-effect
  Except for sizable increase in dead babies
- Oh, sweety. If you think there are no abortions in Texas now, I have a great deal on seafront property in Florida for you.
- Wisdom from someone who has never received an upvoted comment in their entire history.

Was there actually a rise or are doctors fudging things to try to get women the care they need?
- When one of the most obviously predictable outcomes of Texas abortion laws shows up in statistics, I too immediately wonder if the real reason is a statewide conspiracy among Doctors.
  
  If I were a doctor and claiming someone had sepsis let me get them care I’d do it.
- It's actually a rise in sepsis deaths.
  "The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years, which ProPublica used as a baseline to avoid COVID-19-related distortions. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas."
  Doctors aren't faking a sepsis diagnosis. Rather, they're waiting until they can prove the fetus is dead or she's actually dying.
  "The standard of care for miscarrying patients in the second trimester is to offer to empty the uterus, according to leading medical organizations, which can lower the risk of contracting an infection and developing sepsis. If a patient’s water breaks or her cervix opens, that risk rises with every passing hour.
  Sepsis can lead to permanent kidney failure, brain damage and dangerous blood clotting. Nationally, it is one of the leading causes of deaths in hospitals.
  While some Texas doctors have told ProPublica they regularly offer to empty the uterus in these cases, others say their hospitals don’t allow them to do so until the fetal heartbeat stops or they can document a life-threatening complication."

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