Rates of infant mortality in the U.S. increased after Supreme Court limited abortion access

[rambot]

Nonsense. All aborted children are counted as mortalities. Add those numbers into the study and the infant mortality rate dropped.

No way to know how successful those pregnancies would have been. Miscarriages are real things and common.

And besides the concept of "infant mortality" needs to be inencumbered by lose usage of words like fetus and infant.

Otherwise words lose their meaning

 

[o_mlly]

No way to know how successful those pregnancies would have been.

So, you think that murder is justified if the murderer is ignorant? Direct abortions always cause pregnancies to be unsuccessful.

Miscarriages are real things and common.

Real but not common especially in women under 30 years of age. But what is your point?

And besides the concept of "infant mortality" needs to be inencumbered by lose usage of words like fetus and infant.

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Otherwise words lose their meaning

You mean like the word "child"? I agree.

 

[rambot]

So, you think that murder is justified if the murderer is ignorant?

I think that's a nonsequitor and I refuse to play by your definitions.

Real but not common especially in women under 30 years of age. But what is your point?

False.

 

[Merrill]

Infant deaths have increased in the United States since the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade and allowed states to make abortion illegal, researchers reported Monday.

The findings, reported Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, were seen as a clear sign that the Dobbs decision has prevented some women from terminating pregnancies that otherwise would have ended in abortion.

“There’s a really straightforward mechanism here,” said Alison Gemmill, a demographer and perinatal epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who wasn’t involved in the study.

“Prior to these abortion bans, people had the option to terminate if the fetus was found to have a severe congenital anomaly — we’re talking about organs being outside of the body and other things that are very severe and not compatible with life,” Gemmill said. However, if women in these situations had no choice but to continue their pregnancies, “those babies would die shortly after birth,” she said.

Gemmill said the new findings are in line with her own research, including a study published in June that documented a nearly 13% increase in infant mortality in Texas in the wake of a 2021 state law that banned abortions after about the sixth week of pregnancy. Deaths due to congenital anomalies in particular rose by 23% while they were falling in the rest of the country, that study found.

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The Supreme Court did NOT "limit abortion access"

who told you that?

The SCOTUS decisions sent the issue back to the states, and some of those states limited access.

get your headlines right

 

[o_mlly]

I think that's a nonsequitor and I refuse to play by your definitions.

It was not mine but your definition: "No way to know how successful those pregnancies would have been."

False.

True. Female Age and Miscarriage - Spontaneous Abortion

 

[Larniavc]

if doctors/admin are afraid of going to jail because a jury of 12 citizens are going to convict them of breaking a law... to save a life..

they should not be doctors.

Or rather if law makers place doctors/admin in a position where they are afraid of going to jail because a jury of 12 citizens are going to convict them of breaking a law... to save a life...... they should not be law makers.

 

[Larniavc]

Real but not common especially in women under 30 years of age. But what is your point?

It's about 1/4 chance that any given pregnancy will end in miscarriage.

 

[rambot]

The Supreme Court did NOT "limit abortion access"

who told you that?

The SCOTUS decisions sent the issue back to the states, and some of those states limited access.

get your headlines right

Fair point. If those rates are dropping in states where there is no longer abortion access, it shows the problem.

And the evidence gets stronger if those numbers are not matching with those states with abortion access.