Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after the ban.

Texas is just one state. Maternal health experts are concerned similar, horrific outcomes are happening in all states where abortion is banned.

ProPublica found that the rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

Patients who experienced a second-trimester pregnancy loss in a Texas hospital had a higher risk of contracting sepsis after the state's initial abortion ban went into effect in 2021, per a new ProPublica investigation.