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Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancy (www.statnews.com)

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Among the causes of infant deaths, one increased the most: congenital abnormalities, which increased 22.9% in Texas in children between 2021 and 2022, while they decreased 2.9% in the rest of the country. That trend suggests that at least in some cases, parents were forced to carry a pregnancy to term while knowing their children had little to no chance of survival, said Gemmill.

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[-] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When my wife was pregnant with our first-born, my mother went with her to her first ultrasound appointment. To add a little back-story, I had a baby brother who was born when I was about 4 (1967). He had multiple birth defects and so many things wrong that he only lived 16 days. Needless to say, this affected my mom deeply. My wife told me that my mom cried while seeing her soon-to-be grandson on the screen and told her that if that technology had been available when she was pregnant with my brother that she would have terminated the pregnancy without a second thought. When I think of the pain and depression she lived with for pretty much the rest of her life, and then think about how the repukelican party want's to force other women to go through that same agony too just makes me want to start hurling molotov cocktails into a trump rally...

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So if

Conservatives think that abortion is murder
and there are more infants dying
but fewer abortions being performed

Doesn't that mean they should consider their infant mortality rate exactly the same as before?

edit: Cause, if the above is true, but their infant mortality rate is going up, we can draw a straight line between the decrease of abortions and the increase of infant deaths. Of course, Conservative feelings don't care about facts.

[-] OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 months ago

No, that’s to logical. They’ll spin the numbers to mean something positive for the party.

[-] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 4 months ago

They'll just include them in the # of births category without pointing to survivability.

[-] yrmp@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

This is exactly it.

They’ll just spin it and it won’t matter because their voter base literally doesn’t care. They are incapable of critical thought, foresight, empathy, accountability, or generally any other positive human trait.

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

They think one is the choice of the mother, and the other the choice of god. Only god is allowed to renig on his promise of life. And besides if it wasn’t cruel, what would be the point?

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Conservatives don't give a fuck if a baby dies. A conservative is not capable of empathy.

Having complete mortal control over others as well as causing misery to others are what brings conservatives deep, personal fulfillment. Truly. They thrive on control and misery. It is just who conservatives are at their core.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 4 months ago

There are many things conservatives should think and do.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Abortions. Murder not sanctioned. Liberals and Democrats. Muuuuuurderrrrrr!!

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

Pro-Life™️

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago

*some restrictions apply

[-] yrmp@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

This is your brain on conservatism.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Also that abortion training is becoming difficult to obtain for young doctors even in states where it is legal. Also, that maternal deaths increased 25% in the year after Dobbs was ruled. This is not about abortion. It is about women's and baby's health. But this population is too stupid to understand it. Too stupid or cruel or revengeful.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago

People understand, and they're angry about it.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I dunno. I look at republiQan women who still back this insanity and and I think - are they not getting it? Or is it just a cult thing.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

All in the name of God. They put their beliefs above everything else.

[-] Feliskatos@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Could the cult thing in part be Cinderella syndrome?

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 19 points 4 months ago

the difference is, the conservatives want infants to suffer and die rather than not suffering and dying. thats it. they need humans to suffer.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

They are like that cop from South Park trying to bust all the Johns insisting "After they finish" but its after new life and its human carriage suffer for no reason and are further debillitated if at all possible

[-] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah but if those deaths would have been abortions anyway its a win to the forced birthers

[-] Zane@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago

With bonus suffering!

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 5 points 4 months ago

Just as god intended!

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Republicans are killing babies!

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Republicans are killing women and babies because they are incucks. They are being chucked by people they don't even know and it eats them up from the inside.

[-] mister_monster@monero.town -2 points 4 months ago

Good god the methodology.

If you count abortions as deaths, which the state of Texas would, hence making it illegal, it's impossible that they went up. But even without that...

If more infants are born, because less abortions are happening of course, some of those are going to die.

Neither of these are particularly noteworthy.

Did deaths as a percentage of births go up? If not, this isn't news at all.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

Hmm seems like it's just reporting "oh you know those babies that didn't have much of a chance that we would normally abort? well shocker after forcing women to carry them those babies died"

Is it news maybe not. Does it add fuel to my outrage at the whole thing? Yes.

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