What: The Texas committee responsible for examining all pregnancy-related deaths in the state has decided to skip cases in 2022 and 2023, the first two years after the state’s full abortion ban went into effect. They claimed this decision was made to eliminate a backlog of older cases, but members of the committee are concerned it was done to hide evidence of women dying due to the ban.

Key line: “’If women are dying because of delays, and we have this huge new policy in Texas that affects their lives, why would we skip over those years?’ one member of the Texas maternal mortality committee said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from government officials. ‘I’m worried.’”

Source: Washington Post // https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/11/26/texas-committee-wont-examine-maternal-deaths-first-years-after-abortion-ban/