posted January 05, 2025 12:48 AM            

Just as predicted, by women who tried to warn us — isn’t that always the case? — the downfall of abortion rights across America has actually led to more dead babies than when we had a national right to reproductive health care.

Researchers have marked an increase in infant deaths since the Dobbs decision, which removed a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion under any circumstances and nullified the Roe v. Wade decision from nearly 50 years before.

The death rate is especially high among infants born with congenital anomalies, according to a recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics, an international peer-reviewed journal and the oldest, continuously published pediatric journal in the U.S.

The study analyzed national CDC data from 2018 through 2023 on a monthly basis. It focused on infant mortality rates both before and after the Dobbs decision and compared trends such as overall infant mortality and infant mortality among those born with congenital anomalies.

By banning abortion, America’s morality police have only succeeded in killing infants; but it was always a spurious claim that such bans would save them.

“As of this writing, abortion is totally banned in 14 states, and eight states have bans at various times before the first 18 weeks of gestation,” the authors of the study wrote. “The legal status of abortion at any given time does not always translate into an ability to access abortion care. Restricting care can result in widespread negative health effects.”

That makes sense; because when a government enforces a total or near-total abortion ban, that net is necessarily going to ensnare pregnant people who would have terminated a pregnancy due to the fetus’s fatal congenital anomalies, too.

Abortion isn’t a decision that pregnant people and families make with malice toward a pregnancy, as is too often portrayed by pro-life proponents. It can also be used to spare the mother and family from stillbirths or situations that would result in the baby’s death just a few hours after birth.

It’s a heart-rending, emotionally wrenching situation that these conservative states have condemned mothers to, by enforcing these abortion bans. More often than not, pregnant people seeking an abortion are not the stereotyped boogeyman of a “baby killer.” They are simply seeking medical care.

Yet these laws, set up to catch those rare cases, instead catch women and pregnant people who need care that falls under the medical definition of abortion — and thereby doom their unborn to a short, painful life.

The study found that infant mortality exceeded expected levels in several months, with notable increases in October 2022 and March through April 2023, equivalent to a 7% increase or nearly 250 infant deaths.

Mortality among infants with congenital anomalies was especially high, a 10% increase that equates to more than 200 infant deaths, including a particularly higher-than-expected number of deaths observed in September and October 2022, then again in early 2023, reported the American Journal of Managed Care in October of this year.

But the hypocrisy of it all is that this outcome was entirely predictable — and now we have clear proof that the goal was not to save women, infants or fetuses, but rather to police the bodies of pregnant people and women. That proof has come at the cost of our most vulnerable infant lives, and numerically speaking, at the cost of the lives of America’s ethnic minorities, who are often not in a financial position to simply go to another state for the care they need.

“The impact of the loss of Roe v. Wade may be more damaging than predicted, especially in areas of the country where access to abortion care is already a struggle,” wrote nurses Judith Berg and Nancy Fugate Woods, in a paper published to the National Library of Medicine in early 2023.

“(I)t is disheartening and infuriating to see the imposition of legal limitations in the United States to women’s agency of our own bodies. ... It is time to recognize the ethical implications of this decision for people with and children of unwanted pregnancy.”

Thanks to a rising number of states’ draconian laws, and as more women are forced to carry high-risk pregnancies to birth, I predict we will see even more maternal and infant deaths that could have been avoided with proper health care that has been caught in this dragnet that professes to save them.

Health care professionals and women already tried to warn America this would happen, but this county has clearly decided saving souls is more important than saving lives.

posted January 09, 2025 09:50 PM            

But they are saying that these infants would have been aborted prior to the new laws, but instead of being aborted, they got to live, then die, hence the increase in infant deaths. Therefore abortion "bans" are responsible for more infant deaths...

A prime example of a twisted way of thinking.