The new study compared infant death rates in Texas from 2018 to 2022 to those of 28 other states. The data included newborns 28 days or younger and infants up to 12 months old. Infant deaths in Texas rose by nearly 13% the year after SB8 was passed, from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022. During that same period, infant deaths rose by about 2% nationwide.
Babies born with congenital anomalies also increased in Texas, by nearly 23%, but decreased by about 3% nationwide.
I never thought about it but if the mother is not planning on keeping the baby, the mother is not taking care to go to doctor appointments or take prenatal vitamins or any of the things you do to have a healthy baby. Damn, I never thought of that…
Also, piggybacking off of your comment, but if I hear one more Republican go "but there are late-term abortions!! women are changing their minds and deciding to kill their babies when they're bored with it!!"
No one, absolutely no one, is going through a pregnancy until the 7th, 8th month and then going "You know what? I don't want this anymore. I definitely just spent the past 8 months being wildly uncomfortable and in pain and stretching my body because I was just so indecisive!" Those abortions happen because of the risk to the mother, or because the baby is dying/dead/will not survive. Those are wanted children, children of parents who have already set up the nursery, already picked out clothing, maybe settled on a name.
To tell people who get third trimester abortions that they're monsters is not only ignorant of why people actually get late-term abortions, but its so fucking heartless and cruel to tell that to a grieving couple mourning the loss of their wanted child. Especially since many will conclude they did something wrong, when sometimes, pregnancies can just go wrong. That's the unfortunate reality of life.
But Republicans don't live in reality. They live in some fantasy world where people go through months of pregnancy and then just last minute go "never mind lmao abort".
This is my go-to reply to those "moderates" who want to have a "reasonable" time limit on abortions: instead of allowing the procedure up to the twelfth week, how about restricting it to the third trimester? Because if a woman chooses an abortion then, you know that something has gone tragically wrong.
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