What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas abortion ban [View all]

[The Blue Flower]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-maternal-infant-health-texas-abortion.html

Here's what they have found
Outcomes worsened for women who experienced pregnancy loss and other serious complications in their pregnancies.

In October, a team of researchers published a study of more than 320,000 pregnancy losses in Texas health care facilities from January 2017 through September 2023. After Texas' near-total abortion ban went into effect in 2022, blood transfusions for women who lost their pregnancies were 15% higher than expected, based on historical trends.

In January 2025, researchers with UTHealth Houston presented research on previable premature rupture of membranes, when a woman's water breaks far too early in pregnancy. In such cases, the fetus rarely survives, while the mother is at risk of infection, bleeding and other serious complications.

The researchers studied outcomes in these patients before and after implementation of the Texas Heartbeat Act, which in September 2021 banned abortion in all but the earliest stages of pregnancy.