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m_of_disguise ([personal profile] m_of_disguise) wrote2023-03-22 09:26 am

More News About How Texas Sucks

OB doctors are fleeing Texas or just outright quitting in the wake of Dobbs and SB8, Texas's total abortion ban.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/texas-abortion-law-doctors-nurses-care-supreme-court.html


This is all happening as Texans can’t afford to lose more access to medical care. In 2022, 15 percent of the state’s 254 counties had no doctor, according to data from the state health department, and about two-thirds had no OB-GYN. Texas has one of the most significant physician shortages in the country, with a shortfall that is expected to increase by more than 50 percent over the next decade, according to the state’s projections.


The state has experienced the most rural hospital closures in the country in recent years. Less than half of rural hospitals nationwide still have labor and delivery services...in Texas, that number is just 40 percent.

We really need to leave this state.
danabren: DC17 (WhackA Mole/Ragebees)

[personal profile] danabren 2023-03-22 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess that urban repugnicants are okay with this because it's just rural/poor women, and immigrant women, right?

*squints in socialist democrat*

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[personal profile] mala_14 2023-03-22 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. So depressing and awful!
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[personal profile] brickhousewench 2023-03-24 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
The state of health care across the country is abysmal. =(