Tweet - "Women in many GOP-led states w/ high maternal mortality will now be forced to give birth. Medicaid expansion, while no substitute for abortion rights, reduces maternal deaths--yet 12 states still refuse. We must close the coverage gap to save women's lives."
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"Women in many GOP-led states w/ high maternal mortality will now be forced to give birth. Medicaid expansion, while no substitute for abortion rights, reduces maternal deaths--yet 12 states still refuse. We must close the coverage gap to save women's lives.
A 2021 study projected the deadly impact of abortion bans--with increased deaths disproportionately among Black women, who already face unconscionably high maternal mortality and are more likely to fall in the coverage gap. This unjust gap must be closed.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/58/6/2019/265968/The-Pregnancy-Related-Mortality-Impact-of-a-Total"
@WhipClyburn
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