Nearly two years after Texas' six-week abortion ban, more infants are dying | CNN
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Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term.

Some 2,200 infants died in Texas in 2022 – an increase of 227 deaths, or 11.5%, over the previous year, according to preliminary infant mortality data from the Texas Department of State Health Services that CNN obtained through a public records request. Infant deaths caused by severe genetic and birth defects rose by 21.6%. That spike reversed a nearly decade-long decline. Between 2014 and 2021, infant deaths had fallen by nearly 15%.

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    And this is what happens when you force women to give birth to non-viable fetuses. They become dead babies, and sometimes dead women.

    • Alteon@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Well, asking a christofacist conservative to think logically and empathetically vs emotionally and personally is like asking a rock to talk to you. It will never happen.

      The traits that make a diehard conservative are counterintuitive to thinking in a macroscale; I literally dont think they are capable of it.

    • flipht@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. I’m adopted. I’m pro choice. But this isn’t really the own it’s getting implied to be. It really just highlights that statistics can support an argument, but you can’t really make an argument based solely on stats.