Committee members said it was necessary to skip the two years after Texas passed its restrictive abortion laws to offer more timely recommendations.
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“I know that we've always talked about how we want to be as contemporary as possible,” Nakeenya Wilson, a former member of the committee, testified. “What I am concerned about is the fact that the two years that we were skipping are the most crucial years of reproductive health in this country's history.”
The Legislature also allocated money last year with the intent of cutting Texas out of the federal maternal death tracking system, despite committee members’ concerns. Lawmakers also expanded the committee, replacing the single community advocate position with two community member roles, one representing urban areas and one for rural areas.
“There was no input from the executive or any other branch of our state government regarding our plans for cohort review,” she said. “It is imperative that we become more contemporary in our review process.” “The work that we do is for the greater good,” she said. “It is critical that none of us act individually in a way that threatens the ability to continue the work assigned to this committee.”
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