More babies are dying in Texas, according to an explosive new medical study, after the state passed a draconian abortion law in 2021 that basically bans the procedure except in rare cases.
A team of researchers led by John Hopkins University came to this alarming conclusion after analyzing more than 94,000 recorded baby deaths in Texas and 28 other states, detailing their findings in aThe researchers first looked at mortality data between 2018 and 2022 in Texas, along with 28 other states for comparison.
After crunching numbers, they saw that significantly more babies died in Texas in 2022 compared to 2021, jumping from 1,985 to 2,240, for an increase of 12.9 percent. Other states, in comparison, had a smaller increase at 1.8 percent over the same time period. The researchers also saw a spike in the number of babies dying with congenital defects in Texas.
"Our results suggest that restrictive abortion policies that limit pregnant people’s ability to terminate pregnancies, particularly those with fetal abnormalities diagnosed later in pregnancy, may lead to increases in infant mortality," John Hopkins University assistant professor and one of the study's lead authors Suzanne Bell said in aabout the research.
After reading this study, you can't help but ask: are we putting babies and women through needless suffering when we ban abortion?Man Swallows Pill Containing Wireless Camera Live on Stage, Streams Inside of Body for Audience"If we can understand why ovaries age prematurely and what's driving that, that will almost certainly tell us something important about aging in the rest of the body.