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The noise about 'Hunter Biden's laptop' is obscuring a report from the Texas government on a real world tragedy: the hundreds of mothers in this state who have died during or after childbirth over the past decade.

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Due in September, the report was delayed to allow a full review of 2019 cases, the state health agency said. That review didn’t change the findings.

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Texas had until Sept. 1 to release its first major update on maternal mortality in nine years but now says it won't issue the data until after the November election.

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