The Thesis
"What is happening to women's healthcare in this country is not a tragedy. A tragedy is something that happens to you. This is policy. This was designed. This was manufactured."
Labora Collective
Dr. Yamicia Connor
OB/GYN · Founder
OB/GYN · Founder
The Manufactured Proof
+95%
In Texas, white women's maternal mortality rose 95% after the abortion ban — more than Black or Hispanic women. The ban states are killing the women who voted for the bans.
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Health Policy · Reproductive
Health Policy · Reproductive
The Racial Math
+95%White women
+38%Black women
+30%Hispanic women
Texas maternal mortality post-ban. The policy itself is driving the deaths — not biology, not pre-existing disparities.
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Texas 2019–2022
Texas 2019–2022
The Intersection
#1
Homicide is the leading cause of pregnancy-associated death in the United States — by more than 2× over every obstetric cause combined. 81% involve firearms. When a woman cannot end a pregnancy, she cannot leave the man who is killing her.
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Domain 18 · Violence
Domain 18 · Violence
The Privacy Collapse
264
cases in two years where the medical team's documentation or communication was used against the patient — part of 412 total pregnancy-related criminal charges post-Dobbs.
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Labora Rounds
Domain 4 · Privacy
Domain 4 · Privacy
The Dismantling
$900B
Medicaid cut, signed July 4, 2025. CBO projects 10.5 million will lose coverage. Medicaid funds 42% of births in this country.
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OBBBA § 71113
OBBBA § 71113
The Workforce
7,100+
federal health workers fired across CDC (~2,400), NIH (~1,200), and FDA (3,500). HHS workforce being cut from 82,000 to 62,000. The PRAMS team — tracking pregnancy outcomes across 50 states for 38 years — was fired before the 2023 data could be released.
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Domain 1 · Surveillance
Domain 1 · Surveillance
The Tide Underneath
3.4%
rise in the intimate-partner homicide rate for every additional state-level abortion restriction. The bans don't just stop pregnancies from ending. They stop women from leaving.
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Domain 18 · Violence
Domain 18 · Violence
The Lever
Every advance in American maternal and child health came from Congress. Medicaid (1965), Title X (1970), WIC (1972), EMTALA (1986), CHIP (1997), ACA (2010), Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (2023). Whoever sits in Congress in January 2027 decides whether what was dismantled gets rebuilt — or finished off. The vote is the lever.
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Domain 14 · Federal Power
Domain 14 · Federal Power