GOP Turns Texas Into a Maternity Care Desert

Friday, December 06, 2024

Almost half of Texas counties have nowhere to get prenatal care, let alone deliver a baby. This plan offers legislative proposals to shore up what's left.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 08:30 PM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink

Welcome to Texas, where nearly half of the state's 254 counties offer no maternity care services. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/03/t ...

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-- Terri Langford (@tlangford.bsky.social) December 3, 2024 at 9:36 AM

Comments

There's no reason for any family with a woman or girl who is pregnant or might be pregnant to come to Texas, or to stay here.

I am a native Texan and, strangely, love Texas. But there are much, much better places to build a life at the moment. If you have the means, go there.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-06 08:01 AM

They dumb. Let the -------- states like Texas and Florida rot on the vine.

#2 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-12-06 11:57 AM

Good let the magat scum suffer

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-06 12:00 PM

Who are all these people moving there? Shakers? Incels? Young people with no intention of having children?

Good luck finding someone to staff your grocery stores and nursing homes in 15 years.

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-12-06 04:10 PM

Democrats lying again just like their senile commander in chief!

#5 | Posted by Robson at 2024-12-06 09:05 PM

@#5 ... Democrats lying again ...

How so?

Please be specific.

thx.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-06 09:14 PM

Red States love their women barefoot and pregnant...
and stuck at home.

#7 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-12-06 09:32 PM

No big deal.

The strong will survive, the weak will not.

"Survival of the fittest" an' all that...

#8 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-12-07 12:48 PM

Robson:

Lifelong Texan here. And I am getting out next year. Enough. Abootistan sucks.

#9 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-12-07 06:33 PM

Pass all the laws you want. You have to have OB's there to take care of people.
www.newyorker.com

#10 | Posted by mattm at 2024-12-08 12:44 PM

"Anti-abortion leaders know that abortion bans kill women. They don't care. Or worse, many view dying from pregnancy as a good thing. In some cases, it's viewed as just punishment for "sinful" behavior. Other times, it's romanticized as a noble sacrifice on the altar of maternal duty ... . Abortion bans make crystal clear that, to the Christian right, no woman's life is worth saving. Anyone can be sacrificed, to protect their cruel patriarchal order. "

Amanda Marcotte

#11 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2024-12-08 07:17 PM

More and more the Red States become like third world countries. Especially outside of the major cities. If you have any sense of proportion, it is absolutely mind boggling that now now HALF of all Texas counties are not able to provide pre-natal care. If you are a person with the intelligence above an onion, this should be beyond shocking. Think South Sudan, or rural Bolivia.

#12 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-12-08 08:30 PM

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