“The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.”
ProPublica bought seven years of Texas hospital data. Sepsis among women losing a pregnancy in the second trimester rose more than 50% after the ban. Doctors wait to treat miscarriages because the law threatens up to 99 years in prison. The state’s maternal mortality committee skipped reviewing 2022 and 2023.