Those of us who live in modern America can avoid knowing what's happening under the regimes imposed by anti-abortion states, but if we care about human life, we look away at our peril. The toll is highest when infants suffer from extreme abnormalities.
Via Jill Filipovic:
The state of Texas criminalized abortion in 2021, before the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs, and an infant mortality rate that had been dropping for nearly a decade spiked up. Nearly a decade’s worth of progress was reversed. Thousands of babies didn’t survive.
In 2022 alone, some 2,200 infants died in Texas, according to state health data obtained by CNN. That’s 227 more infant deaths than before the state abortion ban went into effect, an 11.5% increase. For the previous near-decade, from 2014-2021, infant deaths had declined almost 15%. In the last 9 months of 2022, Texas some roughly 10,000 more births than expected, a rise researchers also attribute to the abortion ban.
To put a finer point on it, the Texas abortion ban seems to have forced thousands upon thousands of women into unwanted pregnancies and births, reversed a nearly decade-long decline in infant mortality, and killed a lot of babies.
And, appallingly, according to CNN, “Infant deaths caused by severe genetic and birth defects rose by 21.6%.” ... Severe abnormalities often aren’t discoverable or confirmable until after the first trimester, which means that most abortions for severe abnormalities are procedures requested by women who wanted to have babies.
They say they ban abortion for the sake of "life." From afar, it sure looks like some people, mostly Republican men, want to play God with the lives of other people, mostly women and children.
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