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Jun 26, 2024 · The year after Texas passed its restrictive abortion law, infant deaths in the state increased. In 2021, Texas passed Senate Bill 8, also referred to as the Texas Heartbeat Act, banning most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected—as early as five or six weeks of pregnancy. Birth certificate data from 2022 show an increase in infant ...
Jun 24, 2024 · For their month-by-month causal analysis, the researchers drew from infant death certificates in Texas and 28 comparison states from 2018 through 2022. They excluded the District of Columbia and several states that had fewer than 10 infant deaths in any month from 2018 to 2022, as the exact counts are not provided in currently publicly available data.
Sep 21, 2024 · Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period. The number of women in Texas who died ...
Infant Deaths After Texas’ 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Pregnancy. Alison Gemmill, PhD; Claire E. Margerison, PhD; Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD; Suzanne O. Bell, PhD. JAMA Pediatrics. The number of children aged 1 year or younger who died in Texas in the months after the state’s abortion ban went into effect in September 2021 rose an estimated ...
An almost complete abortion ban in the US state of Texas has been linked to a rise in infant deaths and in the number of babies born with congenital anomalies. A study of the birth records across the nation between 2018 and 2022 revealed that infant mortality in Texas rose by 12.7 percent following the implementation of the ban on 1 September 2021.
Jun 26, 2024 · Researchers also compared Texas’ statistics to data from 28 other U.S. states. The results show Texas saw a nearly 13% increase in infant mortality in 2022 from 2021, compared to a less than 2% ...
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Jul 1, 2024 · In Texas, the 2022 mortality rate for infants went up 8% to 5.75 per 1,000 births, compared to a 2% increase in the rest of the U.S., according to the study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Among causes of deaths, birth defects showed a 23% increase, compared to a decrease of about 3% in the rest of the U.S. The Texas law blocked abortions after ...