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%.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.world
    933·
    11 months ago

    It’s not about the morality of it. The point is cruelty and division. That’s all it ever is in this country.

  • kbity@kbin.social
    552·
    11 months ago

    I’m so glad we prevented all those abortions so the unwanted or unhealthy kids could instead die in more painful ways such as congenital defects, poverty and neglect. Virtue signalling is bad, unless it causes preventable suffering to children in which case apparently Supply-Side Jesus is all for it.

    Remember the 10-year-old rape victim who had to travel out-of-state for an abortion, and poor Milo Evan Dorbert, who lived a short life of 99 minutes before dying painfully of Potter syndrome, which left him without functioning kidneys. There are many other rape victims and babies with invariably-fatal conditions who have needlessly suffered for political reasons.

  • SeaJOP
    502·
    11 months ago

    Saving children. /s

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    232·
    11 months ago

    On an unrelated note, funeral home profits have notably increased in recent times…

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    191·
    11 months ago

    Republicans love babies the same way Palpatine loves democracy.

    …Republicans also love democracy the same way Palpatine loves democracy.

  • tidaL@lemmy.world
    215·
    11 months ago

    Fta

    The increase in deaths could partly be explained by the fact that more babies are being born in Texas. One recent report found that in the final nine months of 2022, the state saw nearly 10,000 more births than expected prior to its abortion ban – an estimated 3% increase.

  • realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt
    224·
    11 months ago

    I feel like the focus should now be finding ways to treat babies and children with genetic defects and whatnot, not letting people kill them again.

    But hey, that makes me cruel, mean, and a crusader of death, I hear.

    • Drusas@kbin.social
      22·
      11 months ago

      It does, actually. If these women weren’t forced to give birth to non-viable fetuses, those fetuses wouldn’t become dead babies.

      Edit: Also, even if I agreed with you, we would need to have those treatments for genetic defects available before we force people to have babies.

    • dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world
      181·
      11 months ago

      You mean treat genetics defects like the ones detailed in the article? Where the babies couldn’t breathe because of the defect, the hemispheres of their brain didn’t separate properly and there was no hope of life? How about ones where their brain stem is exposed and they’ll never live? Or the ones where the brain never formed at all? It would be great if we could find cures and treatment for these things. But it’s pretty damn hard to treat something so tremendously wrong when the babies die within days to hours.

    • SeaJOP
      10·
      11 months ago

      Do you think there was no focus on that before? Do you have issues walking and chewing gum at the same time?

  • Umbra@kbin.social
    226·
    11 months ago

    “That spike reversed a nearly decade-long decline. Between 2014 and 2021, infant deaths had fallen by nearly 15%.”

    I mean, is the argument here that banning abortion causes more babies to die?

    • pseudorandom@kbin.social
      26·
      11 months ago

      These babies were going to die anyway. Either with a medically safe abortion or through a complicated and risky pregnancy that also risks the mother’s life.

    • ZombieTheZombieCat
      20·
      11 months ago

      Banning abortion makes the parent and infant suffer completely unnecessarily, and often die completely unnecessarily.

      • Blamemeta@lemmy.world
        628·
        11 months ago

        Yes it is. Its a delibrate action with the intent to kill someone. How is it not murder?

        • RS888@kbin.social
          251·
          11 months ago

          Flour, eggs, water, and milk is not a cake, even when combined in a bowl. Sperm is not a person. An egg is not a person. A fetus is the equivalent of cake batter and your mom licked my spoon.

        • over_clox@lemmy.world
          212·
          11 months ago

          Independent life doesn’t begin until after birth and after the first breaths. Before then, the embryo/fetus is a parasite to the mother.

        • SeaJOP
          162·
          11 months ago

          A fetus is not a someone. Do you view miscarriages as manslaughter?

        • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
          91·
          11 months ago

          “Yes it is. Its a delibrate action with the intent to kill someone. How is it not murder?”

          By your deeply flawed definition, lethal self-defense is murder, as is combat warfare, as is unplugging a ventilator based on the persons explicit instructions.

          I wouldn’t expect more though, given your opinion.

          • Blamemeta@lemmy.world
            111·
            11 months ago

            Ok, I didn’t copy and paste the legal definition. Do you actually want me to bother, or are just here to call names?

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
      92·
      11 months ago

      yeay, now these unwanted or unhealthy kids can die in more painful ways such as congenital defects, poverty and neglect🥰🥰