"It's God's Will" or Something

[Recusant]

How else does a determined repressor of women's bodily autonomy deal with this?

"Under Texas GOP's Abortion Ban, Infant Deaths From Fetal Abnormalities Jumped 23%" | Common Dreams

By taking away from Texas residents the option of terminating a pregnancy in the case of a fetal abnormality when they passed Senate Bill 8 in 2021, Republican lawmakers in the state attained a "tragic" result, according to an analysis released Monday: The number of babies who died soon after birth from congenital conditions jumped by nearly 25% in just one year.

Overall, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the state's abortion law, which bans the procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy with no exception for fetal abnormalities, led to a 13% rise in Texas' infant mortality rate from 2021-2022.

More than 200 families in the state experienced the loss of an infant shortly after birth as a result of the ban, estimated the study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics on the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.

"Behind these numbers are people," Dr. Erika Werner, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts Medical Center, who was not involved in the research, told NBC News. "For each of these pregnancies, that's a pregnant person who had to stay pregnant for an additional 20 weeks, carrying a pregnancy that they knew likely wouldn't result in a live newborn baby."

The number of infants in Texas who died in their first month of life rose by more than 10%, according to the study.

During the period examined by the researchers, infant mortality rose by about 2% nationwide. While the number of babies who died of congenital abnormalities in Texas jumped by nearly 23%, that number decreased by about 2% across the country.

"This is pointing to a causal effect of the policy; we didn't see this increase in infant deaths in other states," lead author Alison Gemmill, assistant professor of population, family, and reproductive Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, told NBC News.

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[Dark Lightning]

Add the trauma to the family of a woman having deliver a dead/soon to be dead baby. What's next? Prosecute the mother for delivering a non-viable baby? I wouldn't put it past them. These Republicans are a heartless bunch. Woman-haters, the lot of them.

[Tank]

Shame on them.

[billy rubin]

its the same number of deaths- either aborted foetuses with fatal anomolies, or infant mortality from waiting they die after birth.

the difference is the cruelty.

[Tank]

its the same number of deaths- either aborted foetuses with fatal anomolies, or infant mortality from waiting they die after birth.

the difference is the cruelty.

Precisely.

[Anne D.]

its the same number of deaths- either aborted foetuses with fatal anomolies, or infant mortality from waiting they die after birth.

the difference is the cruelty.

Yes.