Site Search

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.

Tags: Texas News, Bad Takes, Maternal mortality report, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott, Hunter Biden, hunter Biden's laptop, Uduak Nkanga, Afiya Center, Nakeenya Wilson, Texas Legislature, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, pregnant women, women's health, reproductive health

The Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee report, delayed by more than three months, estimates that up to 90% of the deaths may have been preventable. Severe complications from pregnancy and childbirth also increased significantly.

Tags: Texas News, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, maternal mortality, Texas Legislature, Speaker Dade Phelan, Medicaid, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, State Rep. Shawn Thierry, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Black Women, Hispanic women, discrimination, racial disparities, Texas, women's health, pregnancy-related deaths

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.

Tags: Texas News, Texas, maternal mortality report, abortion ban, abortion rights, women's health, reproductive health, Texas Legislature, House Speaker Dade Phelan, Department of State Health Services, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, suppressing data, suppressing report

Greg Abbott claimed Texas provides expectant mothers 'necessary resources so that they can choose life for their child,' but it is now one of a dwindling number of states not to offer Medicaid coverage for a full year after residents give birth.

Tags: Texas News, Texas abortion, Gov. Greg Abbott, postpartum Medicaid benefits, U.S. Supreme Court, Affordable Care Act, ACA, pregnancy, safety net, benefits, mothers, Texans Care for Children, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, CDC, maternal mortality, 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, Centers for Medicare, Medicaid Services, Texas Republicans, reproductive health, women's health, childbirth, Roe v. Wade, Kel Seliger, Health and Human Services Committee, Obamacare, KFF, postpartum care, Sen. Dawn Buckingham, Texas Legislature, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee

More than a quarter of women of childbearing age are uninsured in Texas, the highest rate in the nation, and the state has chosen to cap Medicaid benefits for new moms earlier than other states.

Tags: Texas News, Abortion Rights, Texas, abortion, Roe v. Wade, uninsured, insurance rates, Medicaid expansion, Planned Parenthood, Texans Care for Children and Afiya Center, Vincent DiCaro, Care Net, pregnancy crisis centers, Alternatives to Abortion program, American Rescue Plan, teen mothers, Texans Care for Children, maternal mortality, social safety net, Black women, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, prenatal care, poor people, unwanted pregnancies, Texas Republicans, generational poverty, poor women