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Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
houstonchronicle.com
Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
![So we flaunt an EU passport like a piece of exonerating evidence. And we cite the honorable professions, waving the press card and the diploma as if they are golden tickets. And the bloodied scrubs. And the stethoscope: sometimes a lifeline, other times a noose. We remind the sniper of the halos on our heads, the crosses we bear, the blindness we heal. Of our other cheek. Of mercy. We don't hate you, we hate the circumstance. We are women and children, always, and if we are men, then we are frail and elderly, reiterating our nonviolence, gesturing at each other's amputated limbs, the branches cut from our trees, more crosses to carry. No land to sow. No sovereignty over the sniper's blooming desert—his dominion "stretch[es] to the height of mountains." We take his jurisprudence as a God and worship in his courthouse.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jipcqdf3d36yhk3dzvjbkh6y/bafkreicmxaaz22cmobolbh34ppc56iciqyferkhce2yeecwfpgzm3lxz4y)