Trump did not invent mean-spirited policies.
After a great deal of commentary on the presidential election, Paul Krugman takes it local in Monday’s column. Specifically to Texas where a deeply upsetting trend is taking hold. The mortality rate for pregnant women in the Lone Star state has doubled in recent years, and is now comparable to places like Russian and the Ukraine, Krugman points out. By way of recent history, the upward trend in deaths does happen to coincide with the state’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood, and many of their clinics have been forced to close. “All of this …read more
Source: AlterNet
