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Texas

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4. Texas

Sat Feb 22, 2025, 03:15 PM

Feb 22

already had terrible maternal mortality rates, similar to Syria and Thailand before the abortion ban. And for Black women in Texas the rate was far worse, similar to Jordan and Mongolia.

That said, maternal mortality varies enormously and Texas has much further to fall.

https://www.texaswhc.org/activities/texas-maternal-health/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_maternal_mortality_ratio

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And they do not care............. Lovie777 Feb 22 #1

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