{"id":139338,"date":"2024-11-28T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=139338"},"modified":"2024-11-28T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:31:55","slug":"tx-refuses-to-track-maternal-mortality-as-at-least-three-women-reported-to-have-died-as-result-of-abortion-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=139338","title":{"rendered":"TX Refuses to Track Maternal Mortality as At Least Three Women Reported to Have Died as Result of Abortion Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2024\/11\/26\/texas-wont-examine-maternal-deaths-after-abortion-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Won\u2019t Examine Maternal Deaths After Abortion Ban<\/a><br>&#8220;\u201cThe Texas committee that examines all pregnancy-related deaths in the state will not review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first two years after Texas\u2019s near-total abortion ban took effect, leaving any potential deaths related to abortion bans during those years uninvestigated by the 23 doctors, medical professionals and other specialists who make up the group,\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2024\/11\/26\/texas-committee-wont-examine-maternal-deaths-first-years-after-abortion-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2024\/11\/26\/headlines\/at_least_the_3_pregnant_texas_women_died_after_being_denied_proper_care_since_abortion_ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At Least the 3 Pregnant Texas Women Died After Being Denied Proper Care Since Abortion Ban<\/a><br>&#8220;ProPublica has reported on another pregnant woman in Texas who died after she was denied appropriate treatment. Health providers say it\u2019s clear 35-year-old Porsha Ngumezi needed emergency dilation and curettage, or D&amp;C, after she started bleeding heavily at 11 weeks pregnant, but was instead given the pill misoprostol. While many doctors in states with abortion bans have started avoiding D&amp;C \u2014 a common and lifesaving procedure \u2014 the Houston Methodist Hospital also abides by its own religion-based ethics guidelines that restricted abortion procedures even before Roe v. Wade was overturned. It\u2019s the fifth case ProPublica has reported in which pregnant women died after being refused the most effective emergency care following state abortion bans. Three of those cases were in Texas. Porsha Ngumezi leaves behind her husband and two young sons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Won\u2019t Examine Maternal Deaths After Abortion Ban&#8220;\u201cThe Texas committee that examines all pregnancy-related deaths in the state will not review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first two years after Texas\u2019s near-total abortion ban took effect, leaving any potential deaths related to abortion bans during those years uninvestigated by the 23 doctors, medical professionals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139339,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139338\/revisions\/139339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}