As harrowing individual stories come in from across Texas,
As harrowing individual stories come in from across Texas, a rigorous accounting of the human toll of abortion bans in the state is still years away. The state’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, which analyzes individual cases and trends statewide , issued a biennial report, based on data from 2019, only last December. But, after S.B. 8, one ob-gyn who treats patients at Parkland and Clements Hospital in Dallas, Anjali Nambiar, embarked on a study of her own, focussed on morbidity. She wanted to know how women who had pre-viability ruptured membranes, severe preeclampsia, or vaginal bleeding had been treated since the passage of S.B. 8 and another state law, about to take effect, that would make it a state felony to administer abortion medications after seven weeks.