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New here escaping from Twitter where I was @KathGraham2 but with same handle HellinaHandcart -hoping to find friends from Twitter here! Interests: politics, pictures, gardening and cats!
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"Across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal has found."
December 11, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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And Texas won’t be investigating maternal deaths in the years after new laws went into effect: bsky.app/profile/stjb...

“If women are dying because of delays, and we have this huge new policy in Texas that affects their lives, why would we skip over those years?” one member of the Texas maternal mortality committee said. “I’m worried.”

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Texas committee won’t examine maternal deaths in first years after abortion ban
The largest state with an abortion ban, Texas can offer broader insight into the impact of abortion laws than any other state in the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 2:02 AM