Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows

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1. Restricting access to healthcare will do that

2. It’s not about protecting fetuses, it’s about enslaving women.

3. Praise God!!! /s

4. Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of your actions…Republicans.

5. I’m assuming maternal mortality increased too.

6. It’s gods will okay

7. So the GOP saves “babies” by killing actual babies. Conveniently, this also kills women. No wonder Trump is doing so well nationally!

8. In every other developed country even a 2% or 3% rise in infant mortality rates lead to a massive healthcare crisis in that country and serious action is taken.
   Not so much in the US where half the country thinks it’s a good thing.

9. Threatening doctors with prison time if they intervene has a chilling effect on preventative medicine.

   https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/20/texas-medical-board-abortion-guidance/

10. This article says 13% https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-abortion-ban-linked-rise-infant-newborn-deaths-rcna158375

11. Texas leads the country in infant deaths now. It’s absolutely terrifying

12. They are the pro-birth party. Mission accomplished.

13. “Pro-life”

14. This is to be expected since they are forcing babies who will die to suffer. This was a definite result of their law. A full view including the number of abortions needs to be seen to figure out specifically what’s going on. This has the ability to hide serious issues if the abortion laws are to blame. What if there was some sort of Zika virus like outbreak?

15. Forcing women to bring non viable pregnancies to term will do this. Now we need the rate of maternal mortality.

16. GOP policies literally kill people.

17. I’ve got an idea. What if we stop recording infant mortality? The problem should go away, right?

18. They don’t care

19. The doctors are leaving! It’s going to get worse!

20. The tidbit from that article is that infant mortality went up 2% for the entire nation as well

21. They don’t care if it’s a dead infant. Only fetuses mater.

22. Because it’s never been about the babies

23. Don’t worry the conservative sub is having real strong discussion on this issue and steps to fix it

    Haha nah they’re freaking out at illegal immigrants murdering people

24. Republicans kill, starve and rape children, this is common knowledge
    If they win in 2024, it will be YOUR children they will be targeting

25. Vote blue straight down the ballot.

26. Insert Thanos “I’ll do it myself” meme

27. The Guardian reported 13% increase actually for infants in first year of life. Also from today’s Guardian:

    “The study found a 23% jump in infant deaths due to congenital anomalies – the kind of conditions that are often identified in utero and lead to abortions in states where the procedure is legal, since they can be incompatible with life. But that choice is no longer available to pregnant Texans.”

    . The study started in 2021 when Texas enacted 6 week abortion ban prior to the upending of Roe v. Wade. This study did NOT look at Maternal death rates and it. But make no mistake we don’t need quantifiable data to figure out that they are higher.

28. Blood on the GOPs hands

29. Pro-Life does it again!

30. Well wait how did that happen? Scratches head…must be some reason.

31. What a shit hole

32. Meanwhile, the Texas Morticians Association rubs their hands in glee ::laughs in Ted Cruz::

33. Sadly predictable.

34. Republicans LOVE to Kill Things.

    In the Name of Jesus of Course.

35. Save the babies! Oh, wait . . . .

36. Nice, predicted by literally everyone with a brain

37. The GOPs incoming counter-talking points ought to be disgusting.