GOP-led Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world

[DesertRat]

As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period.

The rate of Texas women who died from complications related to pregnancy doubled from 2010 to 2014, a new study has found, for an estimated maternal mortality rate that is unmatched in any other state and the rest of the developed world.

The finding comes from a report, appearing in the September issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, that the maternal mortality rate in the United States increased between 2000 and 2014, even while the rest of the world succeeded in reducing its rate. Excluding California, where maternal mortality declined, and Texas, where it surged, the estimated number of maternal deaths per 100,000 births rose to 23.8 in 2014 from 18.8 in 2000 – or about 27%.

But the report singled out Texas for special concern, saying the doubling of mortality rates in a two-year period was hard to explain “in the absence of war, natural disaster, or severe economic upheaval”.

From 2000 to the end of 2010, Texas’s estimated maternal mortality rate hovered between 17.7 and 18.6 per 100,000 births. But after 2010, that rate had leaped to 33 deaths per 100,000, and in 2014 it was 35.8. Between 2010 and 2014, more than 600 women died for reasons related to their pregnancies.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding

[Dustlawyer]

1. Abortions became much harder to get for one.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. As well as...

lack of access to prenatal vitamins and care. That stuff is expensive.

[KamaAina]

2. Texas is in the developed world?!

[angrychair]

3. Fucking ridiculous

It actually takes little effort to connect the dots as to why.

[DesertRat]

10. A very unsettling sentence near the end of the the article...

"HALF the state lacks ready access to OB-GYN care."

[angrychair]

18. Exactly

Lack of access to women's healthcare and ignorance, not necessarily in that order.

[mountain grammy]

4. Life and death in a red state.

[world wide wally]

5. Very "Christian" of them

Fucking phonies

[herding cats]

6. Don't worry, the Texas legislature has everything under control!

They're working to make divorces harder now, since 3 in 7 Texas marriages end in divorce.

Which, if my understanding of their logic is correct, means there will be a massive uptick in spousal deaths, and thus less Texas Republican voters. Right?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Sort of like the states that don't have decent sex ed, have high abortion rates.

And the states with the most fundamentalist Christians have the highest divorce rates.

Hmmm. Isn't that special, as the Church Lady would say.

[Vinca]

8. This is what fanatical embryo worship gets you.

I'm surprised they don't mandate funeral services over tampons since fertilized eggs are spontaneously aborted every month by millions of women.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Why does anyone live in Texas? nt

[Paladin]

15. Better lose the Texas-bashing hauteur.

The morning after election day, you and the rest of the country woke up in the State Of Texas, for all intents and purposes. The only question now is: what the hell do you propose to do about it?

[DesertRat]

16. For the same reason that many of us live in a red state

Are you from Missouri?

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. Yes, I am.. But we aren't even close to the

right wing stuff going on in Texas. The people in KC and St Louis are pretty much blue. Rural is red. I think they kind of balance each other out.

[angel823]

19. Hey there leftylady

Texas is much like Missouri in many ways:

Harris County (Houston):
D H. Clinton
54.2% 706,471
R D. Trump
41.8% 544,960
L G. Johnson
3.0% 39,701
G J. Stein
0.9% 11,755

Bexar County (San Antonio)
D H. Clinton
54.5% 319,191
R D. Trump
41.0% 240,161
L G. Johnson
3.4% 20,053
G J. Stein
1.1% 6,633

Dallas County (Dallas-Fort Worth):
D H. Clinton
61.1% 458,845
R D. Trump
34.9% 261,865
L G. Johnson
3.2% 23,854
G J. Stein
0.8% 6,085

Travis County (Austin)
D H. Clinton
66.3% 306,475
R D. Trump
27.4% 126,750
L G. Johnson
4.7% 21,866
G J. Stein
1.6% 7,420

[DesertRat]

21. My niece works at UT in Austin

Austin is a very Liberal city. I visited in November and Loved it.

[UTUSN]

11. Sick repukes

[oberliner]

12. DC is still worse

They are at 38.2.

[uponit7771]

13. Yeap, when I bring this up to pukes they deflect etc... they have NO answer to it and

... usually end the conversation.

They don't give a fuck about the born or unborn

[dembotoz]

14. after the woman is born they don't give a shit....that damn simple