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It can lead to septic shock and death. In a typical year, at least 1.7 million adults in the U.S. develop sepsis, and nearly 270,000 die from the infection, according to the Centers for Disease ...
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — This week, a report from the nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica made public the 2021 death of Josseli Barnica, a 28 year-old mother who died of sepsis due to an ...
It shows that the rate of maternal deaths in Texas rose 33% between 2019 and 2023 even as the national rate fell by 7.5%. A New Imperative. Texas’ abortion law is under review this legislative ...
The Texas Heartbeat Act contains twelve sections. [55] Although the Act is best known for its provisions that outlaw abortion after cardiac activity has been detected, and that authorize private lawsuits against those who violate the Act, the Act includes other provisions that further restrict abortion and deter litigants from challenging abortion laws in court. [56]
Texas had the highest infant mortality rise in the year after Dobbs; infant deaths rose 13%. [3] Many of these deaths were due to fetal abnormalities; deaths due to birth defects went up 23%, as the Texas Heartbeat Act bans all abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for rape, incest or fetal abnormalities. "In the absence of an abortion ...
In the period between 1972 and 1974, Texas had the highest illegal abortion death rate in the United States with a rate of 62 deaths per million live births. [126] In the same period, Texas and New York State had the largest number of illegal abortion deaths.
Kaitlyn Kash, shown holding her baby as she talks with her son, 5, and husband, Cory, in their South Austin home last year, had problems obtaining misoprostol after she suffered a miscarriage in ...
Gerardo Flores (born 1986) of Lufkin, Texas, was convicted in 2005 of two counts of capital murder under the 2003 Texas fetal homicide law for giving his girlfriend, who was carrying twins, an at-home abortion the previous year.