Strict abortion laws since fall of Roe have led to increased infant deaths — not fewer

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jan/04/strict-abortion-laws-since-fall-of-roe-have-led-to/

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  1. So they make the women who actually live through the birth give birth to a child that will die anyway?  This is considered a successful movement? 

  2. Pretty sure this is exactly what people with a brain said would happen.

  3. See parallel to the sudden criminal drop in 1991, 18 years after the 73 Roe ruling. Turns out unwanted pregnancies lead to circumstances that lower parental support (and/or overstretched societal support) with sociological implications.

    The article makes it a bit more direct – for a baby likely to have congenital or postpartum issues, taking away a reasonable medical option means a price needs to be paid later, cuz Dobbs don’t make the medical issue go away.

    Of course, you can make the case that the Republicans are pro-fetus, but anti-life after you’re born. Methinks George Carlin had a brilliant line about it.

  4. The GOP doesn’t care about anything coming out of a vagina, they only care about controlling what goes into it.

  5. “Children” are only protected while IN the womb. After that..? They don’t care.

  6. It wasn’t about saving lives of the unborn; it’s about controlling women. The men who want women (and mere children) to carry a pregnancy to term, no matter what, are probably lamenting the fact we still have the right to vote.

  7. they love to admire children as long as they are in the womb, then its not their headache

  9. But Republicans do not care — and are even trying to cover up the data — because this was never about life or children.

  10. Instead of a cluster of cells without an actual brain to feel pain, now we get to see developing fetuses and fully developed adult women die in pain. Great job “pro-lifers”.

  11. Wow, the thing that everyone said would happen… happened. It’s almost like we have decades of data and international data from other places with similar polices to collate together and draw a conclusion from.

  12. George Carlin in his 1996 HBO special:

    > Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place, huh? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months.

    >After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.

  14. Since Roe was overturned:

    Abortions: up

    Maternal deaths: up

    Infant deaths: up

    “Pro-life” has always been the anti-life policy.

  17. Wow. Shocker. Not like we told republicans this would HAPPEN. But of course they don’t care. They only care about controlling people who can give birth.

  18. Force nonviable fetuses to be born. Charge the grieving parent more than if they were allowed to have healthcare/reproductive rights. Force them to grieve even more by denying them healthcare/reproductive rights. Cruelty and wealth extraction is the point.

  19. The left wants fewer abortions. That’s why they advocate for things like strong education, accessible and affordable healthcare, affordable housing, and wages that are in tune with the last 40 years of inflation.

    The right just wants women to suffer for daring to have had sex.

  21. It’s about controlling women; lawmakers are not genuinely concerned about life at any stage.

  23. That is because women used to be able to terminate non compatible with life pregnancies, now they are forced to give birth to infant who will die shortly after birth.

  24. Aren’t they making women give birth to babies that have been diagnosed to have no chances of survival? Of course that’s going to lead to increased infant deaths.

  25. Literally any medical professional could have told them this if they bothered to listen to them

  26. Were the meant to do that, or were they just meant to increase births? Any births, at any point in the gestation period, and irrespective of any possibility of live birth or survival?

  27. Who would have thought?

    Certainly not the left that was warning about this for years.

  28. This’ll be the last time we hear about this, as the states with their “kill woman” laws are quickly disbanding the organizations that track such things

    I think Georgia just did it this past week

    Right out of the trump playbook….”Hey, if we didn’t TEST for Covid, we wouldn’t have this many cases.”

  29. Even Saudi Arabia allows abortions in cases of incest, rape, child pregnancies from pedophilia, and in medical situations where the unborn fetus or even being pregnant, is causing harm to the mother. Republicans fear Islamic Shariah laws from being implemented in the US but is perfectly ok with Christian Shariah laws which is much much worse.

  31. Conservatives are already complaining about the left going “we told you so” when it hasn’t even begun

  32. They don’t care ……it was all a giant virtue signal

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