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Nearly two years after Texas' six-week abortion ban, more infants are dying

https://lemm.ee/post/1707514

Nearly two years after Texas' six-week abortion ban, more infants are dying - lemm.ee

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%.

Jul 21, 2023 at 4:23pmWeb
Show threadSeaJJul 21, 2023
Saving children. /s
Show threadCoreidanJul 21, 2023
It’s not about the morality of it. The point is cruelty and division. That’s all it ever is in this country.
Show threadwatsonJul 21, 2023
Exactly. Christofascists are despicable.
Show threadVilianJul 21, 2023
it’s always a out treating woman as cattle, its’ sickening
Show threadover_cloxJul 21, 2023
On an unrelated note, funeral home profits have notably increased in recent times…
Show threadtidaLJul 21, 2023

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.

Show threadSheeEttinJul 21, 2023
Weird how that happens when you restrict access to contraception and sex ed.
Show threadRevan343Jul 21, 2023
That’s not weird, it’s by design. Need more meat for the meat grinder, whether it’s factory workers or soldiers
Show threadEfficaciousSkinkJul 21, 2023

It could also be partly explained by mothers being forced into carrying defective fetuses to term.

Like this mother: npr.org/…/a-good-friday-funeral-in-texas-baby-hal…

Show threadover_cloxJul 21, 2023

Yay! 3% more defective babies!

Has anyone ever considered that sometimes there’s a very legitimate reason why some women decide to terminate a pregnancy?

Show threadVilianJul 21, 2023
is almost like they can’t afford caring for a defective fetus with the joke that’s USA health system
Show threadBlamemetaJul 21, 2023
There were 55,175 baby murders in 2020 in Texas, before the law went into effect. If we stopped 228 baby murders with the laa, thats good.
Show threadSporkupineJul 21, 2023
Go fuck yourself you stupid fascist
Show threadBlamemetaJul 21, 2023
Thats some weak name calling. Surely you can do better.
Show threadrealcaseyrollinsJul 21, 2023
You can always tell if someone's in the right because if they're right, they resort to name-calling
Show threadZombieTheZombieCatJul 21, 2023
Is it really “name calling” if it’s true?
Show threadsadrealityJul 21, 2023
Degenerate
Show threadRS888Jul 21, 2023
Abortion is not murder.
Show threadBlamemetaJul 21, 2023
Yes it is. Its a delibrate action with the intent to kill someone. How is it not murder?
Show threadover_cloxJul 21, 2023
Independent life doesn’t begin until after birth and after the first breaths. Before then, the embryo/fetus is a parasite to the mother.
Show threadRS888Jul 21, 2023
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.
Show threadSeaJJul 21, 2023
A fetus is not a someone. Do you view miscarriages as manslaughter?
Show threaddragonflyteapartyJul 21, 2023
Yes, because now miscarriages are involuntary manslaughter and should be charged accordingly. /s
Show threadAllonzeeLVJul 21, 2023

“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.

Show threadBlamemetaJul 21, 2023
Ok, I didn’t copy and paste the legal definition. Do you actually want me to bother, or are just here to call names?
Show threadVilianJul 21, 2023
yeay, now these unwanted or unhealthy kids can die in more painful ways such as congenital defects, poverty and neglect🥰🥰
Show threadXellaJul 21, 2023
Fuck them kids
Show threadrealcaseyrollinsJul 21, 2023
Not like that!
Show threadJaysynJul 21, 2023
Newsflash: The christofascist death cult doesn't care.
Show threadA_AJul 21, 2023
United Stupidity of America ⛪🙏🕍✝️
Show threadkbityJul 21, 2023
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.
Show threadUmbraJul 21, 2023

"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?

Show threadpseudorandomJul 21, 2023
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.
Show threadZombieTheZombieCatJul 21, 2023
Banning abortion makes the parent and infant suffer completely unnecessarily, and often die completely unnecessarily.
Show threadcomment deletionJul 21, 2023
Every downvote is one of them lurking among us.
Show threadrealcaseyrollinsJul 21, 2023

Indeed

lurks ominously

Show threadFlying SquidJul 22, 2023
Feel free to explain to us how a higher infant death rate which can be correlated with harsher abortion laws is a good thing.
Show threadrealcaseyrollinsJul 21, 2023

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.

Show threadDrusasJul 21, 2023
It does, actually. If these women weren't forced to give birth to non-viable fetuses, those fetuses wouldn't become dead babies.
Show threadrealcaseyrollinsJul 21, 2023
I don't support rape, so I don't support any form of forced birth
Show threadDrusasJul 21, 2023
Ah, so you're pro-choice then.
Show threadSheeEttinJul 21, 2023
I don’t think anyone supports rape, but it happens anyway.
Show threadstappernJul 22, 2023
wut
Show threadSeaJJul 21, 2023
Do you think there was no focus on that before? Do you have issues walking and chewing gum at the same time?
Show threadstappernJul 21, 2023

It does because you want to force women to give birth against their will.

We don’t do slavery anymore.

Show threadSheeEttinJul 21, 2023
No no, we do, just only for prisoners. Everything else is just sparkling servitude.
Show threaddragonflyteapartyJul 21, 2023
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.
Show threadAllonzeeLVJul 21, 2023
At least you know what you are.
Show threadxc2215xJul 21, 2023
So the decision accomplished nothing. What a waste.
Show threadAllonzeeLVJul 21, 2023

Republicans love babies like Palpatine loves democracy.

…Republicans also love democracy the way Palpatine loves democracy.