Texas lawmakers try again to address rising pregnancy deaths

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers are pushing with new urgency efforts to study a skyrocketing rate of pregnancy-related deaths after previous attempts stalled earlier this year.
The Texas House on Tuesday approved more data collection after a study last year that found that Texas’ maternal mortality rate doubled between 2010 and 2012.Researchers say rate wasn’t only the highest in the U.S., but the developed world.
That University of Maryland-led study offered no explanatio