An analysis of CDC data reveals that since Dobbs, women are dying at alarmingly high rates from ectopic pregnancies – in which an embryo implants in the fallopian tube, rather than the wall of the uterus, a condition which has no possibility of leading to a live birth and which is fatal if left untreated. … Read more
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that almost 200 women died after an ectopic pregnancy from 2020 to 2025 Read more at Salon. Original article at ProPublica
“Erica Schwartz’s testimony … should alarm everyone who believes private medical decisions belong to patients, not politicians,” Mini Timmaraju, the president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All, said in a statement. She added that, under the Trump administration, “abortion surveillance could be expanded or weaponized to collect more intrusive information, spread disinformation about reproductive … Read more
She has often expressed skepticism of traditional medicine, writing on her website that hormonal birth control has “horrifying health risks” and that the “total burden” of the vaccine schedule — before Kennedy overhauled it — is “causing health declines in vulnerable children.” (Neither claim is substantiated by scientific evidence. Read more at NBC News
Ultimately, Hamad believes the attacks on Prams will lead to higher maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. “We don’t have ways to track the risk factors and we can’t study the policies to fix the problems,” she said. “It’s really gonna be a catastrophe moving forward.” Read more at The Guardian
The report also reups Kennedy’s battle against fluoride, which he believes shouldn’t be added to drinking water, by directing the CDC to update its recommendations and appears to nod at a years-long campaign by abortion opponents to cut off access to pills used in pregnancy terminations because of their alleged impact on water pollution. Read … Read more
Already, the Trump administration has moved to eliminate research on abortion. In January, Trump issued an executive order blocking data collection measuring the effect of access to reproductive care, including abortion care. The administration scrubbed several references to abortion on the Department of Health and Human Services’ website. and “There’s a proven connection between slashed … Read more
“We cannot understand factors associated with poor pregnancy outcomes without surveillance like PRAMs,” Taylor says. The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of all high-income countries, and experts fear that reducing research on prevention will make things even worse. “If we don’t understand those factors, U.S. maternal morbidity and mortality will continue to worsen. … Read more
Based on my sources, I can now report that the issue does not appear to be the various ways that comprehensive research on pregnancy might be perceived as bumping up against controversies over abortion and other politicized issues of reproductive health care. The issue is what the administration calls “DEI.” The questionnaires include questions about … Read more
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” in the words of … Read more
