Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica documents deaths of women

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

This is how authoritarian governments work.

Shutdown those who dare to document the failures of the wacko rightwing state government.

Deaths of women due to draconian state laws are to be kept hidden from the public

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https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dismisses-maternal-mortality-committee-amber-thurman-candi-miller

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

The Georgia committee’s most recent report found that of 113 pregnancy-related deaths from 2018 through 2020, 101 had at least some chance of being prevented.

But at least one other state has experienced a lag as a result of reshaping its committee. Idaho let its maternal mortality review committee legislation expire in July 2023, effectively disbanding the committee after lobbyist groups attacked members for recommending that the state expand Medicaid for postpartum women. Earlier this year, Idaho’s Legislature reestablished the committee, but new members weren’t announced until Nov. 15. There is now more than a yearlong delay in the review process.

Two states did make shifts to their committees — Idaho, after members made a recommendation to expand Medicaid that Republicans opposed, and Texas, after a member publicly criticized the state.

In 2022, Texas committee member Nakeenya Wilson, a community advocate, spoke out against the state’s decision to delay the release of its report during an election year. The following year, the Legislature passed a law that created a second community advocate position on the committee, redefined the position and had Wilson reapply. She was not reappointed. The state instead filled one of the slots with a prominent anti-abortion activist.

[SpankMe]

6. Collective punishment

They're not dissolving the committee. They're firing everyone on it and re-filling it with new people because they were unable to find which of the committee members leaked the data.

[Solly Mack]

10. That is true. Dismissing is not dissolving.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Texas is probably worse.

According to an NBC analysis, “Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631

And the rate is probably higher since Republicans lie about everything. A special committee determines whether a woman’s death was caused by pregnancy complications. It’s easy to just say she would have died anyway. The maternal death rate for black women especially has increased—as planned by denying reproductive healthcare.

[Old Crank]

3. No need to report

the increase in women's deaths because of their laws that save lives...

[NotHardly]

4. Think it's bad now, just you wait ... these people love to hate and control women

[iluvtennis]

5. DISGUSTING. n/t

[Bettie]

7. Of course they did

women have no value...

[republianmushroom]

8. That is one way of keeping a clean record with no facts to dispute it.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

27. The Trump administration and red states did this during Covid.o

[irisblue]

9. Sigh. At least the authoritians before & during WW2 kept good records

[Irish_Dem]

11. Every day we are more and more like China and Russia.

I have spent time in China. It was a terrifying experience.

It was so great to come home to the US.

I never dreamed the US would become like China.
Voted in by the American people.

[barbtries]

12. this is so bad.

they don't surprise me, but they can still shock me. motherfuckers!

[Magoo48]

20. Pious Christofascists have always been a roadblock to good community healthcare.

[hadEnuf]

13. Covid casualty records were successfully being suppressed, why not anything else that isn't flattering to the party?

[Martin68]

14. Democracy dies in darkness, along with truth, justice, and decency.

[bronxiteforever]

15. They may hide the truth but it won't stay hidden

[markodochartaigh]

23. You can hide the truth,

but you can't hide from the truth.

[SunSeeker]

16. Sick fucks. I hope there's still a way to get this data. nt

[Scrivener7]

17. There is no reason that data should be secret. The individual files, yes, but no reason for the

aggregate date not to be public.

[dlk]

18. We need a federal law with mandated reporting

Unfortunately, it won’t be possible for some time, if ever.

[sakabatou]

19. Watch as maternal deaths rise in the state anyway

[blueseas]

21. Up you go

Unbelievable

[markodochartaigh]

22. In a Western European country

where much the same level of care is available to all you can average statistics across society and come up with a meaningful number. But you can't do the same in the US. If you average the rates of a medical condition that a population in an urban blue state has with the same medical condition in a Southern Black community you get a meaningless number which only serves to obscure the fact that the Southern Black community has far worse outcomes.

[Meowmee]

24. Yep

We will see more of this. This country I think has the highest maternal mortality rate of the major western democracies.

[moniss]

25. Yes indeed and they do things like this so they can

proclaim there is no evidence of a problem and so any accusations of a problem are baseless. It's the old thing of you will never find what you do not look for.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Control of information is crucial to autocrats/ dictators.