Monday, June 12, 2017

Don't have a baby in Texas

"Maternity Crisis," an article by Mattie Quinn in the May 2017 issue of Governing Magazine, states that "Texas is the most dangerous place in America to have a baby."  

From 2011 to 2014 more than 600 Texas women died from complications around childbirth.  If Texas were a country it would have the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world.

Texas has a high rate of undocumented immigrants, and they don't qualify for Medicaid benefits.  Texas was also one of 19 states that chose not to participate in the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.  Finally, the big jump in in maternal deaths began the year after Texas began shutting down Planned Parenthood clinics.  

Coincidence?

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