Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

In the years since the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion and since Texas instituted one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, the state has seen an increased rate of sepsis among women who lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

Despite these bans, the number of abortions in the U.S. has actually increased. In 2020 — the year before Texas became the first state to ban abortion in defiance of Roe — the number of abortions in the U.

ProPublica found that the rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

ProPublica analyzed years of statewide hospital data and found more women are developing sepsis than before the ban was instituted.

ProPublica’s analysis is the most detailed look yet into life-threatening complications under Texas’ abortion ban

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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of

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The funds could also support other 'downstream' services like STI testing and at-home pregnancy tests. The full council will soon vote on whether to approve the funding.

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after the ban.