The rate of sepsis dramatically increased among pregnant women in Texas after the state’s restrictive abortion laws took effect, according to a report.
ProPublica analyzed seven years of Texas hospitals’ discharge data — from 2017 through 2023 — and found that since 2021, when the southern state’s initial abortion ban went into effect, the rate of sepsis surged by more than 50 percent for women hospitalized when they experienced miscarriages in the second trimester.
