Dying mothers should shock Texas into action

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25. Republican Texas legislators just do not care.

The article says there is no proof that slashing the family planning budget in 2011 is linked to more maternal deaths, but more than 80 clinics had to close, many of them the only clinic for hundreds of miles in poor rural areas and most of them not even providing abortions. The other factor is that Texas refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA, which would have provided more poor women with access to affordable healthcare. While there are certainly poor white women in Texas, many of the poor are black or hispanic. And Republican legislators simply don't care. Those are not the people who give big bucks for their reelection campaigns. Poor women are not able to access preventive care, but Texas also has refused to allow the collection of data on why women die. No data, no proof that they're doing anything wrong. These right-wing men are legislating death, but they just keep being reelected. Horrifying and disgusting that religion is driving legislation that literally leads to deaths from lack of care.