More pregnant women getting killed by Trump abortion bans

One of the most telling parts of Trump’s insane rant du jour was this:

YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION, BECAUSE IT IS NOW WHERE IT ALWAYS HAD TO BE, WITH THE STATES,

This is something that not only Trump believes, or that members of the anti-abortion lobby believed — it was a way for centrist pundits to demonstrate their Savvy. The idea that Roe was the reason there was political conflict over abortion was amazingly widespread.

And, of course, couldn’t possibly be more wrong:

The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds.

From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period, according to an analysis by the Gender Equity Policy Institute. The nonprofit research group scoured publicly available reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and shared the analysis exclusively with NBC News.

Supporters of abortion rights and women’s rights are never going to accept this status quo. And it’s hard to imagine a time when the well-connected anti-abortion minority stops trying to pass draconian bans in every state legislature they control and nationally, whether legislatively or by judicial fiat. The idea that overruling Roe would mean you no longer have to think about abortion made no sense if you thought about it for more than 5 seconds, but this is the case of Trump believing something he heard all the time on cable news.