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.