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# Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
- URL: https://werd.io/texas-banned-abortion-then-sepsis-rates-soared/
- Published: 2025-02-21T21:39:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-21T21:39:44.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Lizzie Presser, Andrea Suozzo, Sophie Chou and Kavitha Surana at ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis)\]

My colleagues at ProPublica conducted a first-of-its-kind data analysis on health outcomes after Texas banned abortion in 2021.

Here's what it found:

> "The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.  
>  
> The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, 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. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas."

The abortion ban is leading to dangerous delays in care that is leading to an uptick in maternal death. Which is exactly what patient advocates warned would happen.

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\[[Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis)\]