r/facepalm Aug 27 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Welp

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u/bad2behere Aug 27 '24

Everyone who remembers before birth control became widely available knew this would happen if they paid attention back then. Because it has been happening for centuries is how we could see it would happen again. It's historically proven. Sadly, some people don't look to history for knowledge, they look only to those who think like they do. So Republicans as well as Democrats who didn't foresee this simply acted on their point of view instead of learning from the past. Sad -- very very sad, imho. And the innocent are suffering because of it. I'm honestly in tears right now.

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u/No_Arugula8915 Aug 27 '24

Everyone who remembers before birth control became widely available knew this would happen

Anyone with half a brain and an ounce of common sense would have known. Only 6 is the part that surprises me. I figured more.

Might sound dark and pessimistic, but I don't think it will be all that long now before there are "missing" babies and toddlers.

Don't want them, can't feed them, can't care for them, state won't take them, and so many more reasons. Every once in a while there are still little unwanteds from pre Roe days that turn up.

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u/bradbikes Aug 27 '24

It's not only 6, just 6 that they've discovered in this particular county of the state.

In the months following the law changes, Texas infant fatalities rose 13%, fatalities of mothers during birth also saw a similarly dramatic rise.

This rise was directly attributable to the anti-choice laws passed by republicans as it is localized to their state and similar rises were not seen elsewhere in the nation during this time period except in other anti-choice jurisdictions. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/texas-sb-8-and-increases-in-infant-deaths

Republicans actively promote policies that cause death and suffering of children.

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u/mjsymonds Aug 28 '24

...and women.

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u/bradbikes Aug 28 '24

Well that goes without saying. But they CLAIM they do this for the children while simultaneously raising infant mortality by leaps and bounds.