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

    • Drusas@kbin.social
      22·
      1 year ago

      It does, actually. If these women weren’t forced to give birth to non-viable fetuses, those fetuses wouldn’t become dead babies.

      Edit: Also, even if I agreed with you, we would need to have those treatments for genetic defects available before we force people to have babies.

    • dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world
      181·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • SeaJ@lemm.eeOP
      10·
      1 year ago

      Do you think there was no focus on that before? Do you have issues walking and chewing gum at the same time?