Chelsea Clinton claims without evidence that 'women have died' after Dobbs decision due to doctors refusing abortions in cases where mother's life is at risk

On Thursday at an Aspen Ideas Health summit in Aspen, Colorado, Chelsea Clinton claimed that "women have died" due to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and "Christian white nationalism." 

Kristen Welker from NBC News asked Clinton what her reflections are "one year after Roe." Clinton responded, "I'm really f*cking angry." 

"And that is an uncomfortable place to be," she continued, "because of the historical women tropes that so often have been used to kind of silence and diminish kind of women and our voices not only in this country, but throughout human history, but I'm really angry because we know, we know that women have died."

"It shouldn't matter that we don't yet have a federal registry," Clinton said. "When you have families and you have physicians and you have midwives saying this woman died because she was four days into sepsis because someone's still judged that her fetus might be viable and so they were worried about providing medically indicated necessary care, and she died like that isn't up for debate."

In a post to Twitter, the former first daughter said she is "really angry about the maternal mortality crisis in our country AND hopeful about our future."

Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022, handing the issue of abortion back to the states to decide their laws on the issue. Since the ruling, 25 states passed bans or restrictions on abortion, while 20 states codified abortion access into law. Among the states that have restricted abortion, legislation includes expectations in the case where the mother's life is at risk.

According to FiveThirtyEight, over twelve months, there were 93,575 fewer legal abortions in states that restricted access, while there were 69,285 more abortions in the states it remained legal, meaning there were 24,290 fewer abortions from July 2022 through March of 2023. 

According to their website, the Aspen Ideas Health Summit is a three-day event in Colorado that brings together a "community of over 1,000 attendees – including healthcare and public health practitioners, researchers, business leaders, policymakers, advocates, artists, and journalists" at "the Aspen Institute’s awe-inspiring Colorado campus to elevate and accelerate bold approaches to better health for all." This year's lineup included Clinton, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.