Idaho has quietly dissolved its committee tasked with understanding maternal deaths

[Eugene]

Source: The Spokesman-Review

Idaho has quietly dissolved its committee tasked with understanding maternal deaths

Amanda Sullender, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.
Sat, August 5, 2023 at 11:59 PM EDT·8 min read

Aug. 5—An Idaho panel tasked with investigating the deaths of pregnant residents was not renewed by the state Legislature and quietly dissolved last month.

The move comes a year after Idaho implemented a ban on abortion at all stages of pregnancy following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The end of the Maternal Mortality Review Committee comes before the panel can investigate what effects Idaho's abortion ban may have on the rate of Idahoans dying while pregnant.

The dissolution makes Idaho just one of two states in the nation without a governmental body investigating pregnancy-related deaths and looking for policy solutions to maternal mortality. States with greater abortion restrictions are associated with higher rates of maternal mortality.

Idaho's committee included more than a dozen physicians, nurses, midwives, coroners and other experts who reviewed case studies of all individuals who died during or shortly after pregnancy. In annual reports, the committee detailed the causes of these deaths and how they could have been prevented.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. To forced birthers, dead women are no big deal.

???

No.

[ret5hd]

2. RW birth control: Kill The Sluts.

Anyone not a slut is just gods will.

[central scrutinizer]

3. See no evil, hear no evil, document no evil

Ergo, evil doesn’t exist.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Idaho also has

or at least had in May, only ONE perinatologist for the entire state. There used to be five, but the other four have packed up and left. My brother told me this when he visited this past spring and we were discussing the sad state of affairs in his neighboring state (he lives in Montana). For all I know, the one remaining one, who was in Boise, may have cut and run by now too. Texas, this is what you are about to look like. You too, Mississhitty and Alabummer. (Perinatologists, FYI, care for at-risk newborns)

[Solly Mack]

5. Cowards. They don't want any evidence that they are killing women.