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It has been shown that mothers between ages 18 and 44 who did not complete high school had a 5% increase in maternal mortality versus women who completed high school. [32] By completing primary school, 10% of girls younger than 17 years old would not get pregnant and 2/3 of maternal deaths could be prevented. [ 33 ]
Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022.
UNFPA estimated that 303,000 women died of pregnancy or childbirth related causes in 2015. [6] [7] The WHO divides causes of maternal deaths into two categories: direct obstetric deaths and indirect obstetric deaths. Direct obstetric deaths are causes of death due to complications of pregnancy, birth or termination.
A Texas teen died after the state’s ban on abortion stopped her from getting life-saving medical care while experiencing pregnancy complications. On October 28, 2023, the day of her baby shower ...
Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and the rate by which Texas women died from pregnancy related complications doubled from 2010 to 2014, to 23.8 per 100,000. A rate unmatched in any other U.S. state or economically developed country.
A Texas law that banned abortions early in pregnancy is associated with a stark increase in infant and ... from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022. During that same period, infant deaths rose by about ...
This usually occurs after about six weeks of pregnancy. SB 8 became Texas law Sept. 1, 2021, and less than a year later the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. ... following Texas' passage of SB ...
It is one of two high schools in the Texas City Independent School District (TCISD), the other being La Marque High School. The main school building for Texas City High opened in 1952. Another building for Texas City High opened in 1957, and the previous one became Blocker Junior High School. [2] As of September 2021, Texas City High School had ...