@BlackAzizAnansi #BlackMastodon https://www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mortality-abortion-roe-dobbs/

"A study by the University of Colorado estimates a 24 percent increase in maternal deaths if the United States bans abortion federally. They predicted the increase would be even higher for Black patients, at 39 percent."
#maternalhealth #MaternalHealthCare #BlackMaternalHealth #abortion #ReproductiveJustice #ReproductiveRights

Idaho Disbands Maternal Mortality Review Committee Amid National Surge in Deaths. Idaho is now the only state without a process for reviewing and attempting to prevent pregnancy-related deaths.

https://truthout.org/articles/idaho-disbands-maternal-mortality-review-committee-amid-national-surge-in-deaths/

#IdahoMaternalMortality #MaternalHealthCrisis #PregnancyRelatedDeaths #MaternalMortalityReview #IdahoHealthcare #MaternalHealthcare #Politics #News

Sweeping #restrictions & even outright #AbortionBans adopted by states in the year since the landmark #Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling have had an overwhelmingly negative effect on #MaternalHealthCare, according to a survey of OBGYNs released Wednesday that provides one of the clearest views yet of how the US #SupremeCourt decision has affected women’s #HealthCare in the United States.

#SCOTUS #AbortionRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/21/obgyn-abortion-poll/

Jill Filipovic points to a new study by Gender Equity Polity institute which finds,

"In states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, mothers are three times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or in the year after than mothers in states that protect abortion rights. And babies in these supposedly 'pro-life' states are 30% more likely to die."

#abortion #ProLife #healthcare #InfantMortality #MaternalHealthcare

https://jill.substack.com/p/the-weeks-in-women