Women in states with abortion bans are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after giving birth, according to a report from the Gender Equity Policy Institute shared first with Axios.

https://t.co/ftWOFHLnH8

Report: Mothers in states with abortion bans nearly 3 times more likely to die

The report found that maternal mortality rates in states with bans was "significantly higher" than in supportive states.

Axios

@axios

State sanctioned misogyny

@axios I know that the abortion bans have made things much worse, with women being denied proper care even when it puts their lives at risk, but it was bad before, because many deep red states refused Medicaid expansion and had second rate health care, and many didn't get prenatal care back when abortion was legal.

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Republican billionaire donors are also restricting the supply of prenatal vitamins to pregnant people who are poor.

Reproductive health care clinics supplied the poor with these expensive nutritional aids. With these clinics shut down...

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/07/prison-abortion-shackles-malnutrition-maternal-mortality-jail-roe-repeal/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/upshot/abortion-bans-states-social-services.html

https://psmag.com/social-justice/what-its-like-to-get-reproductive-care-at-an-anti-abortion-anti-contraception-clinic

The hell of being pregnant in prison is about to get so much worse

“Forcing people to carry pregnancies to term when they are in facilities that historically cannot address their medical needs is very disturbing.”

Mother Jones
@axios now that's what I call "pro-life"
@axios republicans don't care!
@axios “Ask not who the shithole countries are ask why your country is a shithole country.”