Texas is one of the most dangerous states in the nation to have a baby.

[RandySF]

Texas is one of the most dangerous states in the nation to have a baby. The state’s maternal mortality rate is one of the worst in the country, with Black women making up a disproportionate share of deaths. The state’s infant mortality rate, at more than five deaths per thousand births in 2020, translates into nearly 2,000 infant deaths annually.

Texas opted not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which helped lead to hospital closures and the formation of rural health care “deserts,” where obstetricians are scarce and prenatal care scarcer still. More than a quarter of women of childbearing age are uninsured, the highest rate in the nation. Medicaid covers low-income women through pregnancy and for two months postpartum, compared with 12 months in most states.

A proposal in the Texas House to expand postpartum coverage to 12 months was cut to six months by the State Senate. Tens of thousands of children born to low-income parents languish on the waiting list for subsidized child care.

In September of last year Texas passed Senate Bill 8, banning abortions for patients with detectable embryonic cardiac activity, which generally begins at about six weeks. A recent Times analysis suggests that Texas’ abortion rate declined by only 10 percent after the bill passed, as more women traveled out of state or ordered medication abortions by mail. But poor patients often lack those options.




https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/us/politics/texas-abortion-roe-wade.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

[PJMcK]

1. Texas is one of the most dangerous states in the nation

Period.

Florida is a close second.

I have family and friends in both states and I cannot fathom how they can stay in either shithole.

I saw a post recently that compared Texas' state policies with those of countries around the world. When all of the restrictive laws and policies of Texas were compared to the nations of the world, the state most closely resembled the worst countries including Yemen and Iran.

Way to go, Texas. You want to secede? Have at it and good riddance.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. In Texas, state-funded crisis pregnancy centers gave medical misinformation

Greg is intentionally giving bad medical information to Texas women

Link to tweet

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/texas-state-funded-crisis-pregnancy-centers-gave-medical-misinformatio-rcna34883

Across the U.S., more than 2,500 crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) provide free services and counseling for women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. They outnumber abortion clinics 3 to 1 nationwide, and as some states shutter clinics after Roe’s reversal, that ratio will grow.

But when two NBC News producers visited state-funded CPCs in Texas to ask for counseling, counselors told them that abortions caused mental illness and implied abortions could also cause cancer and infertility.

The nation’s largest national obstetricians’ group, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says that’s medical misinformation.......

Established by the Texas Legislature in 2005, a program called “Alternatives to Abortion” or A2A helps fund the state’s CPCs. Texas initially spent $5 million every two years on the program, but that figure has ballooned to a record $100 million for 2022 and 2023, according to public records.

A2A’s mission is to “reduce abortions and improve pregnancy outcomes,” “improve child health and development” and “improve families’ economic self-sufficiency.” In addition to CPCs, the program funds resources like maternity homes for homeless pregnant women and adoption centers. The Texas facilities are not licensed medical providers, though some women report believing they are.

[gulliver]

3. "Black women making up a disproportionate share of deaths"

A lot of these red state moves have a disproportionate effect on minorities. That's not a coincidence. The Drug War is another example of Republicans calling in an airstrike on their own position in hopes of hurting minorities.

[Tree Lady]

4. Yesterday on family video call

My daughter who lives in Texas said, well at least you guys live in the free states, talking to me and other daughter in Oregon and CA. I have no freedom at all.

She has 2 teenagers she won't take from friends but has said after they graduate she is leaving the state for one out west.

She works remotely as a CPA so can live anywhere. Her husband is retired military and works as a civilian now for them but could transfer I am sure out here.

She isn't worried about getting pregnant but the boys will be dating soon.