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Elizabeth Petruy

Student, LBJ School of Public Affairs

Elizabeth Petruy has worked with the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA, and as a community coordinator for the Dallas nonprofit Art Conspiracy. She is currently a graduate student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Health

Let’s celebrate Mother’s Day by addressing Texas’ maternal mortality crisis

By Elizabeth Petruy, May 12, 2017

A 2016 report in the medical journal “Obstetrics and Gynecology” revealed that maternal mortality rates in Texas increased from 18.6 per 100,000 births in 2010 to 35.8 in 2014. Maternal mortality is decreasing worldwide, but the opposite trend is happening in every U.S. state except California — and it’s especially pronounced in Texas.