NEW | Texas ranks 49th for women’s health in new state-by-state scorecard
The 2023 scorecard, which uses most-recently-available 2021 data, does not include data to reflect the implications of abortion restrictions or bans that states enacted after the. The state of women’s health in the year before abortion bans went into place still speaks to potential future findings, Commonwealth Fund researchers said.
Texas also came in above average for its share of births born “preterm,” or before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Preterm births come with increased risks of death or severe complications for the baby. “All of this contributes to not only preterm birth, but also babies who are not healthy enough to survive in the womb and outside of the womb,” Burgess said.
Black Texans died from breast and cervical cancer at a rate of 32 deaths per 100,000 women, while white Texans died from those diseases at a rate of 24 per 100,000 women.
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