Additional notes:
*First graph – Sepsis rates for women hospitalized during second trimester pregnancy loss spiked after Texas’ abortion ban. Note: For hospitalizations involving a pregnancy loss between 13 weeks’ gestation and the end of the 21st week. Rates are annual.*
*Second graph – For patients in Texas hospitals who lost a pregnancy, about half were not diagnosed with fetal demise when they were admitted, meaning that their fetus may still have had a heartbeat at that time. Those patients saw a dramatic increase in sepsis after the state banned abortion. Note: For hospitalizations involving a pregnancy loss between 13 weeks’ gestation and the end of the 21st week. We identified patients whose fetus had no heartbeat when they were admitted by looking for a diagnosis of “intrauterine death” or “missed abortion.” Rates are annual.*
Exactly what the voters wanted
So eli5… Is this because women who needed abortions for medical reasons couldn’t get them, and therefore had to wait until they occurred naturally, worsening their condition?
20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, 30% of miscarriages need medical attention.
making pregnancy as dangerous as being in a third world country….
You have a total of 6 years of data. From skimming and searching the article I see no indication of source or sample size. Basically, where did this data came from?
It also mentions “dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years, which ProPublica used as a baseline to avoid COVID-19-related distortions.” Maybe I’m stupid, but I don’t understand what’s actually being done to factor out Covid deaths in this ambiguous data set.
Lastly, the numbers we’re talking about here range from 67-99 people. Pretty small numbers over a period of just 6 years (so no way to know if this is a normal variance over a long period of time and you just took an unfavorable snapshot) to draw a headline like “Sepsis Rates Soared.” This is clearly using data to push a political agenda.
This is the ugliest graph I’ve seen here.
7 years of plot points? Like, I’m on team anti-banning of abortions, but have there been similar spikes/rates in prior years not being shown?
How was abortion banned in 2021?
Pro-lifers are barbarians
Way too low. Texas won’t be satisfied until it hits double digits… /s (I wish)
What are the hard numbers? Are we taking dozens or tens of thousands?
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester [shot up by more than 50%](https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis).
There’s no federal methodology for studying complications that arise during a pregnancy loss, so we consulted with experts to craft one.
Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after Texas banned abortion: [https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology](https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology)
Additional notes:
*First graph – Sepsis rates for women hospitalized during second trimester pregnancy loss spiked after Texas’ abortion ban. Note: For hospitalizations involving a pregnancy loss between 13 weeks’ gestation and the end of the 21st week. Rates are annual.*
*Second graph – For patients in Texas hospitals who lost a pregnancy, about half were not diagnosed with fetal demise when they were admitted, meaning that their fetus may still have had a heartbeat at that time. Those patients saw a dramatic increase in sepsis after the state banned abortion. Note: For hospitalizations involving a pregnancy loss between 13 weeks’ gestation and the end of the 21st week. We identified patients whose fetus had no heartbeat when they were admitted by looking for a diagnosis of “intrauterine death” or “missed abortion.” Rates are annual.*
Exactly what the voters wanted
So eli5… Is this because women who needed abortions for medical reasons couldn’t get them, and therefore had to wait until they occurred naturally, worsening their condition?
20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, 30% of miscarriages need medical attention.
making pregnancy as dangerous as being in a third world country….
You have a total of 6 years of data. From skimming and searching the article I see no indication of source or sample size. Basically, where did this data came from?
It also mentions “dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years, which ProPublica used as a baseline to avoid COVID-19-related distortions.” Maybe I’m stupid, but I don’t understand what’s actually being done to factor out Covid deaths in this ambiguous data set.
Lastly, the numbers we’re talking about here range from 67-99 people. Pretty small numbers over a period of just 6 years (so no way to know if this is a normal variance over a long period of time and you just took an unfavorable snapshot) to draw a headline like “Sepsis Rates Soared.” This is clearly using data to push a political agenda.
This is the ugliest graph I’ve seen here.
7 years of plot points? Like, I’m on team anti-banning of abortions, but have there been similar spikes/rates in prior years not being shown?
How was abortion banned in 2021?
Pro-lifers are barbarians
Way too low. Texas won’t be satisfied until it hits double digits… /s (I wish)
What are the hard numbers? Are we taking dozens or tens of thousands?
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