Most Texas pregnancy-related deaths preventable, disproportionately affected Black women

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Breaking: Most Texas pregnancy-related deaths preventable, disproportionately affected Black women

, but the report stressed 12 months is needed to “help identify and properly manage health conditions before they become life-threatening.”

Between 2016 and 2020, the rate of serious pregnancy complications rose for all women, the report found, but most steeply for Black Texans. In 2020, Black women were twice as likely to experience critical health issues in childbirth, including sepsis and preeclampsia. The report recommended engaging Black communities in the development of programming, diversifying the maternal health workforce and requiring bias training.

 

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Of course they did, just further substantiating that GregAbbott_TX and KenPaxtonTX are for perpetuating a racist system since everything else they do for this state panders to the very same crowd that caused Uvalde. Watch them sit with their thumbs up their asses...

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