A day after this story was published, the Washington Post reported that the Texas maternal mortality board would skip reviewing the deaths of pregnant women in 2022 and 2023 — conveniently, the first two years after the abortion ban went into place. The leadership claims it’s about speeding up the review process, but of course, many members pointed out the main effect is that “they would not be reviewing deaths that may have resulted from delays in care caused by Texas’s abortion bans.”

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That is the trap of misogyny. It allows women like Lila Rose or Ingrid Skop to pretend that, if you submit to the sexist order and obey all their arbitrary rules, you’ll be saved. But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who’ve had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped. Abortion bans make crystal clear that, to the Christian right, no woman’s life is worth saving. Anyone can be sacrificed, to protect their cruel patriarchal order.

They are fully mask off at this point, and we gave them 4 years of clean open road to entrench as much of this shittiness as they can.

gg America