Interesting read: Factually under ACA, deaths doubled!
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September 2016 
[..] ﻿maternal mortality doubled in the state from 2011 to 2014...
Opinion writers have been quick to point the finger at the state’s assault on birth control and abortion...﻿ “The closure of abortion clinics isn’t related to this reported increase in maternal mortality, which predated it by two years,” said Daniel Grossman...﻿ ﻿ 
Most Texas women who died post-pregnancy didn’t do so in the delivery room, but six weeks or more after childbirth - The three top causes: cardiac events, drug overdoses, and hypertension...﻿ 
A lot of them were on Medicaid... If the women were eligible for the state’s emergency Medicaid program, their coverage ended 60 days after the birth. Help with drug abuse is scarce, as is mental-health care (suicide was the seventh leading cause of maternal mortality).
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-story-behind-the-maternal-mortality-rate-in-texas-is-even-sadder-than-we-realize/