The number of deaths among pregnant women in Texas has jumped since the US state repealed the right to abortion, according to data released by the World Health Organization. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) and its analysis by Gender Policy Institute (My pocket).
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From 2019 to 2022, the maternal mortality rate rose 56% in the southern U.S. state. By comparison, the national rate rose 11% during the same period.
There is only one explanation for this great contradiction. […] “All the data suggests that the decriminalization of abortion in Texas is the primary cause of this alarming increase,” says GEPI President Nancy L. Cohen.
The latter also sees the situation in Texas as a harbinger of what may happen in other states.
Texas eliminated the right to abortion starting at five weeks of pregnancy in September 2021, nearly a year before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
From now on, the US state bans all abortions, unless it is to save the mother's life.
“If you prohibit women from having abortions, more women will get pregnant and more women will have to carry their pregnancies to term,” says Nancy L. Cohen.
The number of pregnancies ending in maternal death is particularly high among Black women, rising from 31.6 to 43.6 deaths per 100,000 births in 3 years, peaking at 79.5 in 2021.
