Okay, so we have a problem in Texas.

Within a two-year period between 2010 and 2012, the rate of pregnant women dying in Texas doubled – and it’s not entirely clear why.

Well, here, let me wipe off your glasses.

In 2011, the state Legislature cut Texas’ family planning and women’s health program, which provide care and routine screenings for low-income women. Lawmakers slashed its budget by two-thirds—and kicked out women’s health providers that also provide abortions.

Okay, so we cut funds for women’s health care and everybody is stumped, just completely stumped, why the mother mortality rate doubled.

Researches are stumped because they “didn’t see this in other states.”

Look at a damn map, researchers.  Texas is big, real big.  If the clinic closes in your town, it’s not like you can jump on the metro and go to the next town.  It can be a ten hour drive to the next clinic.

Our right-to-life state legislators decided that their religion was more more important than women’s deaths.  Period.

Women who do not get pre-natal care die at a higher rate than those who do.  Period.  That’s the cause.

But, and you’re gonna love this part of the research, women a expendable.

“It’s a great concern,” she says. “Maternal deaths are deaths of young women that have families. They probably have other children they have husbands. The ripple effect is huge for these deaths.”

So, our worth is determined by our husbands or other children.  How about not killing off women because they are human beings?

Okay, I’ll put away the soap box.  But I know where I put it and I can get it out again.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.