GOP do not, will not count their dead. [View all]
That's been going on since Katrina. If they can be held responsible, they will hide the consequences of their actions. It's their modus operandi.
https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-bans-deaths-state-maternal-mortality-committees
In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were products of conception still in their bodies.
These are the very kinds of cases state maternal mortality review committees are supposed to delve into, determining why they happened and how to stop them from happening again.
But panels in states that have recently imposed strict bans on abortion have done little to uncover whether the laws are contributing to maternal deaths, including tracking delays in care for pregnancy complications and making these problems known, a ProPublica investigation shows.
In fact, we found that in a few states, political leaders who backed the bans have stood in the way of measuring their consequences.
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Maternal mortality and morbidity are carefully recorded worldwide. But not in the US anymore. Women don't count.