A Texas committee that is meant to review pregnancy-related deaths in the state won’t review cases from 2022 and 2023, the Washington Post reported. That means that pregnancy-related deaths since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision won’t be reviewed in the state. In Texas, doctors who violate the state’s strict abortion ban face up to 99 years in prison. According to ProPublica, at least three women have died in Texas due to delays in care related to the state’s abortion bans.
According to the report, Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee members said in September the change was made to “be more contemporary.”
