The legislation that caused this was passed under the guise of improving the safety for women’s health… The law was successfully challenged at the Supreme Court this past summer by demonstrating how the law had nothing to do with health risks and everything to do with undermining Roe V Wade. But not soon enough to save women from death due to health complications for which the legislature wanted to make descisions for the women, in the most demeaning patriarchal way. Literally disenfranchising women of the rights to autonomy of their bodies.
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“There were some changes in the provision of women’s health services in Texas from 2011 to 2015, including the closing of several women’s health clinics,” [researchers] write. “In the absence of war, natural disaster, or severe economic upheaval, the doubling of a mortality rate within a two-year period in a state with almost 400,000 annual births seems unlikely.”

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