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A recent report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that maternal mortality – deaths that occur during pregnancy or within 42 days after delivery – increased by 40% in 2021. This figure affirmed that the US is the most dangerous rich country to live in during pregnancy or childbirth.
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.
It was estimated that in 2015, a total of 303,000 women died due to causes related to pregnancy or childbirth. [6] The majority of these were due to severe bleeding, sepsis or infections, eclampsia, obstructed labor, and consequences from unsafe abortions. Most of these causes are either preventable or have highly effective interventions. [6]
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 ...
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 healthcare policy professor believes that strict abortion laws enacted by Republican states have made pregnant women "untouchables" — and have resulted in their deaths.. Nevaeh Crain was 18 ...
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 ...