Waldorf didn’t oppose abortion, but she had never considered that the law could apply to her. Her father was a doctor. This was the hospital where she had worked for the past six years. The OB-GYN team treating her had delivered her daughter, and some of them lived blocks from her parents. She was a highly educated 38-year-old woman with connections to the governor. As she lay in a hospital bed, worried that infection could enter her uterus at any moment, she finally understood the ban now applied to anyone losing a baby.

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ms spock said:

didn’t oppose abortion, but she had never considered that the law could apply to her

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allegorical

In Texas, the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy-loss hospitalisations has risen more than 50% since that state’s post-Dobbs abortion bans came into effect. There have been dozens more pregnancy-related deaths in its hospitals compared with pre-Dobbs years. The ban has been associated with increases in neonatal deaths, especially those involving congenital abnormalities. Miscarriage care has worsened. Bodies have been left hurt, scarred and permanently mutilated by the denial of medical care obliged by politically legislating the anti-abortion agenda. A 2024 study estimated that in the 14 US states with total abortion bans, there were more than 64,000 rape pregnancies after Dobbs.

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ms spock said:

In Texas, the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy-loss hospitalisations has risen more than 50% since that state’s post-Dobbs abortion bans came into effect. There have been dozens more pregnancy-related deaths in its hospitals compared with pre-Dobbs years. The ban has been associated with increases in neonatal deaths, especially those involving congenital abnormalities. Miscarriage care has worsened. Bodies have been left hurt, scarred and permanently mutilated by the denial of medical care obliged by politically legislating the anti-abortion agenda. A 2024 study estimated that in the 14 US states with total abortion bans, there were more than 64,000 rape pregnancies after Dobbs.

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I wonder in part if its also more money for hospitals as birthing a child costs money, tens of thousands isn’t it in the USA

Cymek said:

ms spock said:

In Texas, the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy-loss hospitalisations has risen more than 50% since that state’s post-Dobbs abortion bans came into effect. There have been dozens more pregnancy-related deaths in its hospitals compared with pre-Dobbs years. The ban has been associated with increases in neonatal deaths, especially those involving congenital abnormalities. Miscarriage care has worsened. Bodies have been left hurt, scarred and permanently mutilated by the denial of medical care obliged by politically legislating the anti-abortion agenda. A 2024 study estimated that in the 14 US states with total abortion bans, there were more than 64,000 rape pregnancies after Dobbs.

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I wonder in part if its also more money for hospitals as birthing a child costs money, tens of thousands isn’t it in the USA

That is true. It costs a lot of money to have a child in the USA.

I think it is more to do with control.

1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriages before Roe vs Wade these women often died. They are dying again.

White maternal deaths rose 95% when abortion care bans came in to effect iin Texas.

Maternal mortality rose 56% in Texas in the first full year of the state’s abortion ban; up 95% among White women

Now that maternal morbidity committees have been disbanded which means shortly we won’t know maternal death rates.