Will lawmakers let Texas’ maternal mortality committee review abortion deaths?

Arika Rodriguez with her newborn son Parker at the Holy Family Birthing Center in Weslaco on Sept. 28, 2017. (Credit: Reynaldo Leal for The Texas Tribune)

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For the last year, members of Texas’ maternal mortality review committee have been increasingly vocal about the ways state law limits their ability to analyze maternal deaths and near-misses. Now, it’s time to see whether legislators will heed these calls for change.