Posted on 07/20/2023 3:09:12 PM PDT by devane617
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%.
In 2021, Texas banned abortions beyond six weeks of pregnancy. When the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights the following summer, a trigger law in the state banned all abortions other than those intended to protect the life of the mother.
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.
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I see it as odd too.
Post partum vs. pre partum?
makes no sense at all
I assume they don’t count the kids that were saved?
Baby killers are concerned over children dying.
Dems have firm convictions, in five minute increments.
Not if the claim is true. But what are they dying from? Is it the jab that Biden made mandatory?
With a headline like that…who’d bother to read such tripe? Other than a leaky brained liberal that is. This is news they want to believe.
Mortality increase is due to vaccinated mothers.
The whole article is odd. Devoid of any semblance of rational thinking.
“More infants are dying”? Well then, shouldn’t the pro-aborts be clamoring for even MORE abortion restrictions?
COVID vaccines. Illegals flooding the state. Maybe personal lifestyle issues with the mothers (overweight, drugs, etc.).
May be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality
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Yep it’s CNN
Missing is the fact millions of illegals have poured across the border and are certainly the reason for the up tick—if indeed there was an uptick. But the entire article is noting short of liberal progressive dem insanity on paper.
Stop thinking...it makes me laugh!
Two words: spike proteins
One of the most perfect summations I have seen. Well done.
So we only saved 99.6% of the babies?
Total drivel. Not even close to journalism.
Leftists love to call their murders abortion so stupid people do not think a murder took place.
Now they do the opposite and call it a death to make those same stupid people think abortion is better than death.
Yes, people are stupid.
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