Pregnant? Watch Your Risks in Great State of Texas
The Lone Star state’s maternal mortality rate coincides with Gov. Perry’s slashing of reproductive health services. This latest report offers a shocking snapshot, and the worst may be yet to come, says Rita Henley Jensen.
As I write this, I am humming the late Donna Summer’s hit “She Works Hard for the Money” and remembering the scenes from the video, featuring a middle-age single mother, an everywoman, scrubbing floors, waiting tables, running a machine in a garment factory, feeding her preteen kids and falling into bed exhausted.
