After Texas Abortion Ban, Sepsis Rates Soared

Friday, February 21, 2025

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.

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NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas' near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. www.propublica.org/article/texa ...

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MAGA is a death cult.

#1 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-02-20 08:02 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I'm afraid that you'll never be able to get MAGA excited about dead women.

Except as a sexual outlet.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-20 10:46 AM | Reply

ProPublica previously reported on two such cases in which miscarrying women in Texas died of sepsis after doctors delayed evacuating their uteruses. Doing so would have been considered an abortion.

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So essentially two people died from the MAGA perspective.

Or maybe just 1.5, since the mother isn't really worth all that much.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-20 10:48 AM | Reply

Texas Won't Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

www.propublica.org

The GQP war on women is going swimmingly.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-20 11:08 AM | Reply

While a 50% increase is worrisome, statistics like this mean nothing without the raw numbers.
Are we talking an increase to 9 from 6 out of tens of thousands of pregnancies? Or are we talking an increase from 600 to 900?
An increase from 2 to 3 is a 50% increase, but would it even be statistically significantly in a group of 10,000 or just normal variation over that time period studied.
Beware of not getting all the data with statistics, you can easily be led astray. Not saying that is what happened here, just need more information.

#5 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-02-21 03:47 PM | Reply

"statistics like this mean nothing without the raw numbers."

I disagree. Any time you see a leap in disasters by 50%, you know SOMETHING is affecting the change. Not 2 to 3, of course, but definitely 600 to 900.

"Texas Won't Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women"

Oh, look: even more proof!

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-21 04:29 PM | Reply

Another raw wiener story.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-21 08:24 PM | Reply

"If a woman who would have gotten a legal termination if she could because it is safer than not having one happens to die from what seemed like a normal pregnancy oh well that's too bad, it's God's Will anyhow, and if she was right with Christ she is in a better place so what is the big problem. The wastage of pregnant women is well worth the glorious aims of the prolifers."

Gregory S. Paul

#8 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-02-21 09:56 PM | Reply