Dying mothers should shock Texas into action [View all]

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Childbirth is the closest a woman can come to death.

That's what Houston state Rep. Shawn Thierry said on the House floor this past week. She was quoting her grandmother, born in 1920.

"Here we are, a century later in Texas," Thierry said. And for an alarming number of women, the saying is still true.

Texas has the highest rate, by far, of maternal mortality in the nation. And, with the exception of Mexico, Texas has the highest rate in the developed world.

Let that sink in.

In a state that boasts the world-renowned Texas Medical Center, a state where "pro-life" is a battle cry of powerful elected leaders, women are dying at troubling rates before, during and after giving birth from conditions such as hypertension, pre-eclampsia, sepsis and hemorrhage.

More: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/falkenberg/article/Dying-mothers-should-shock-Texas-into-action-11736908.php

Let that sink in and continue to read. I have no idea why pro-lifers hate the mothers so.