Some States With Abortion Bans Stand in the Way of Measuring Their Consequences

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.

Maternal mortality review committees are supposed to determine why deaths happen and how to stop them from happening again, yet in states with strict abortion bans, their work has been stalled.

Political leaders backing abortion bans are obstructing the work of maternal mortality committees by dismissing members who oppose the bans and suppressing necessary transparency.

Texas has legally prohibited its maternal mortality committee from reviewing deaths deemed abortion-related, raising concerns about the lack of oversight in these critical cases.

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