Idaho Disbands Maternal Mortality Review Committee Amid National Surge in Deaths. Idaho is now the only state without a process for reviewing and attempting to prevent pregnancy-related deaths.

L4sBot@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Idaho Disbands Maternal Mortality Review Committee Amid National Surge in Deaths. Idaho is now the only state without a process for reviewing and attempting to prevent pregnancy-related deaths.

TechyDad@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Why does this remind me of Trump saying that we could reduce COVID infections by not testing so much.

Because COVID infections and pregnancy related deaths stop existing if you just stop measuring them, right?

Rottcodd@kbin.social · 2 years ago

I would assume that this is just the first in what will be a widespread effort among red states to do the same.

Simply because banning abortion is essentially guaranteed to lead to an increase in pregnancy-related deaths, and that’s a statistic that undermines the conservative position.

And it’s ALWAYS the case that when truth is contrary to conservative positions, the positions don’t change to accommodate the truth - the truth is hidden to protect the positions.

md5crypto@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Fake news.

“The whole idea is not necessarily to find someone to blame, but how do we improve our systems, and fight to make sure that we have the resources so that women are not in danger,” former committee member and Maternal Fetal Physician Specialist, Dr. Stacy Seyb said. “We won’t have the ability to look at cases from that sort of a multidisciplinary way anymore, and what you end up with [now] is some raw numbers.”

The number of maternal deaths will still be tracked, according to IDHW Women and Infant Health Program Manager Jennifer Liposhak.