ProPublica data shows blood transfusions for Texas miscarriage spike 54% after abortion ban
A new analysis of hospital discharge records reveals dangerous delays in miscarriage care as doctors hesitate to perform procedures entangled in abortion restrictions.
What to know
- Blood transfusions for first-trimester miscarriage in Texas jumped 54% after abortion became a felony in August 2022, based on hospital discharge data analyzed by ProPublica.
- Emergency room visits for early miscarriage rose 25%, suggesting women are returning in worse condition after initial visits without dilation and curettage procedures.
- Medical experts attribute the spike to physicians delaying D&Cs—which safely end miscarriage and prevent hemorrhage but are also used for abortion—due to legal ambiguity in abortion restrictions.
- The data corroborates patient accounts of women being discharged without care, only to return bleeding severely enough to require transfusions.
The dispute None substantial; the evidence shows near-unanimous opposition to the restrictions. One commenter notes the findings are unsurprising ('It's not striking. Most of us knew the impacts that were coming'), but this voices agreement with the critical frame, not a counterargument. · positions read across 44 posts and comments
Abortion restrictions are fundamentally about controlling women, not protecting life, and reveal the hypocrisy of politicians who claim to be 'pro-life' while refusing social support.
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“It was never about prolife but is all about controlling women.”
climateelf.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
Texas and Republican-led states are waging a 'war on women' by restricting abortion and endangering maternal health, which will and should lead women to avoid childbearing and relationships.
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“It's called the war on women. Doesn't surprise me that less children are being born in the USA. Republicans are against women, always have been, always will be.”
gsuter031.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
Voters in states with abortion bans bear responsibility for supporting politicians who enact and maintain these laws, and women should consider leaving or refusing to support those states.
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“Well they keep on voting in the same people so it's on them. The men don't give a 💩 about womens health.”
sodamnedlucky.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
“physicians are sitting on nonviable pregnancies longer and longer before they're doing a D&C — until patients are really bleeding.”
Dr. Elliott Main, Hemorrhage expert · ProPublica
Dr. Elliott Main Hemorrhage expert, former medical directorSarah De Pablos Velez Miscarriage patient in Austin, TexasProPublica News organization conducting investigation and data analysis
The record 1 articles and posts · last 28 days
What people are saying 24 voices from 1 site · best of 44 · verbatim
- Aug 29
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Fascists don't care if women bleed to death. Keeping the patriarchy alive is more important to them. As long as they can control women and girls' bodies, they're willing to ignore the casualties. It's a passive form of femicide. The US is not safe for us.
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If you live in Alabama Arkansas Idaho Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North/South Dakota Oklahoma Tennessee Texas W Virginia and you vote for ANY Repub. on the pallet, you are voting to KILL every woman of child bearing age. You will be complicit in their death from miscarriage
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Well they keep on voting in the same people so it's on them. The men don't give a 💩 about womens health. They have some of the harshest restrictions. WTF does Abbott know about being a woman? Yet he makes decisions for the women and their health.
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And entirely predictable. Old white men did this. As they inevitably do.
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Same people who wanted this are the ones complaining about declining birth rates and women not wanting kids. What sane woman wants to risk bleeding to death or being criminalized for controlling her own body? Hard pass.
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.
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It was never about prolife but is all about controlling women.
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Imagine trying to be 100% present during intimacy with your partner while the question asking will this be the time that kills me runs relentlessly through your head.
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Amy Coney Barrett betrayed all women when she voted to overturn Roe.
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Who didn't foresee this happening except for the religious right..the Christian Nationalist who aren't even Christians and White men who want their women to produce babies at any cost..
- Aug 28
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Women should attempt to move out of Texas. Leave the GOP men there by themselves until they decide to treat women with respect and dignity. Texas GOP males don’t deserve women.
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It's not striking. Most of us knew the impacts that were coming.
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It's called the war on women. Doesn't surprise me that less children are being born in the USA. Republicans are against women, always have been, always will be. Same as only caring about babies while in the womb. After that, they don't care 😡😡
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When men truly start seeing women as equals they’ll start seeing abortion as healthcare.
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No republican has ever or will ever care about any baby or child, period. After looking at the issue, it is plain to see that the Republican party is the party of pro-embryo, pro-fetus, forced birth and anti-refugee. They are not pro-life, pro-child, pro-mother, pro-health, pro-safety, or pro-family
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States with abortion bans found that pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections, and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies. Maternal review boards should have stopped it.
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And some DID BLEED TO DEATH. Don’t forget about THEM!
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It’s unconscionable. This article is from last year though, has any action been taken by Texas officials to change their archaic laws?
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Yes. TX is even more deluged with Right Wing propaganda media than the rest of the nation. So
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It’s always freaking Texas! Either pedophiles, pregnancy police, or some other monitoring instead of finding out why people like Paxton own 11 homes on a government salary!
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it's intentional Texas GOP is hostile to women & their health
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The same people who want (certain) women to have lots of children are doing all they can to make pregnancy as dangerous and traumatic as possible.
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Only a completely backward country and state would led women bleed to death.
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More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)