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Jun 26, 2024 · Even prior to SB 8, there was some evidence of a relationship between abortion restrictions and infant death: States that are hostile to abortion or that have more abortion restrictions had higher infant mortality rates. But these studies were not able to directly attribute this difference in infant death to the policies’ imposition.
Sep 21, 2024 · Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022.
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.
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 24, 2024 · In 2021, 1,985 Texas infants died before their first birthday. The next year, with S.B. 8 in effect, the fatalities jumped to 2,240, a 12.9% increase that came as the U.S. experienced an overall ...
- Eduardo Cuevas
- Breaking News Reporter, Health
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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Texas’ abortion ban, known as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, prohibits abortions of fetuses with a detectable heartbeat, which can be as early as about 5 weeks’ gestation. Neonatal deaths—or deaths of infants younger than 28 days—also increased after the introduction of SB8, the researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics .
