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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.
These are the very kinds of cases state maternal mortality review committees are supposed to delve into.
But in a few states, political leaders who backed the bans have stood in the way of measuring their consequences.
ProPublica surveyed 18 states with the most restrictive abortion laws.
Most have not finished reviewing deaths from 2022 , the year most bans became effective after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
Reviews typically lag years behind deaths because of time it takes state health department employees to learn of cases, track down records.
There is a limit to how much committee members can push back against state leaders.
When Texas delayed publishing its report in 2022 , an election year , a committee member spoke out.
The next session, Texas lawmakers passed a bill changing the requirements for the position that Wilson held, effectively removed her from the committee.
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