posted April 08, 2025 03:20 PM            

Republicons don’t care that women are dying because of the bans, and they don’t care about those babies, once they are born.

posted April 08, 2025 03:22 PM            

http://sph.tulane.edu/study-finds-higher-maternal-mortality-rates-states-more-abortion-restrictions

States with more restrictive abortion policy climate have higher total maternal mortality, measured as a death during pregnancy or within one year following the end of a pregnancy, a recent study conducted by a team of Tulane researchers finds.

The US maternal mortality rates remain consistently higher compared to other wealthy countries. Concurrently, the past decades have witnessed an increasing passage of policies and regulations restricting access to abortion care across many states, despite abortion being legal since Roe v. Wade (1973). As a result, access to abortion care varies greatly across the US, with six states having only one abortion clinic in operation.

Using the national maternal mortality data accessed from the National Center for Health Statistics, the researchers examined the associations between the state abortion policy context in 2015 and maternal death during 2015-2018. The state abortion policy climate was assessed by compiling an abortion policy composite index of eight abortion restrictions (e.g. gestational age limits, ultrasound requirements, mandatory counseling and waiting periods, insurance coverage limitations and targeted regulations on abortion providers).

The researchers found that states with the higher score of abortion policy composite index had a 7% increase in total maternal mortality compared with states with lower abortion policy composite index. Among individual abortion policies, states with a licensed physician requirement had a 51% higher total maternal mortality and a 35% higher maternal mortality (i.e. a death during pregnancy or within 42 days of being pregnant), and restrictions on state Medicaid funding for abortion was associated with a 29% higher total maternal mortality.

“It is critically important that state-level policies related to women’s access to comprehensive reproductive health care services, including abortion, are evidence-based and guided by the primary goal of improving women’s health and reducing maternal mortality,”said Dovile Vilda, research assistant professor at the Department of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences and a lead author on the study. “Our study provides evidence that decreasing the number of abortion restrictions across the states may reduce incidence of death during pregnancy and postpartum among all women in the US.”

The study, published online in the “First look” area of American Journal of Public Health, was conducted by a team of Tulane researchers from Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Newcomb Institute, Department of Health Policy and Management, and Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research at the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences.

posted April 09, 2025 11:57 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
Bump.

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teasel, it is not okay to post suicide ideation on a forum then just waltz out and ignore people who are reaching out to you.

It.is.not.okay.

If you were just being hyperbolic, as in "Lawd, take me now!", fine, just say so, and we can all have a good laugh and move on.

posted April 10, 2025 12:40 AM            

You are you stalking teasel...
Why?

Remember what Thumper's Mom said?

posted April 10, 2025 12:46 AM            

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Originally posted by ballerina:
Belage2...

You are you stalking teasel...
Why?

Remember what Thumper's Mom said?

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posted April 10, 2025 12:55 AM            

I'll start...

What gives aliens the right
to take us..our government!?

So many lies..so so so
many lies...

posted April 10, 2025 01:00 AM            

I am more concerned about teasel posting suicide ideation on this forum. If you are not concerned, take a seat.

posted April 10, 2025 01:07 AM            

They don't appear to report all the
homeless people that commit suicide
every year, it's a big secret!!!

posted April 10, 2025 01:16 AM            

And don't even get me started on
Gender affirming surgery...
Need suicide hotline!!!

That surgery will only affirm you
can not be another sex!!!