House lawmakers tentatively approved a series of
bills Monday aimed at helping Texas curb its unusually high rate of
women dying less than a year after childbirth.
The primary measure, House Bill 9, would direct
the state’s Task Force on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity to continue
studying pregnancy complications and maternal deaths until 2023. Last
year, a study in the medical journal Obstetrics and
Gynecology revealed that Texas’ maternal mortality rate had nearly
doubled between 2010 and 2014. State task force data shows that between
2011 and 2012, 189 Texas mothers died less than a year after giving
birth, mostly from heart disease, drug overdoses and high blood
pressure.
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