Wish the ‘pro life’ folks would turn their attention from abortion to infant mortality. That they care more about abortion suggests to me that they care less about saving lives than they do about dictating how people should live.
Tamar, do you know if the increase in infant mortality rates solely reflects the fact that more women are forced to give birth to babies with congenital defects that are incompatible with life due to the increasing difficulty in getting an abortion in a post-Roe world? I haven't been able to find much that goes into why we're seeing this increase.
I have that question too. I heard one pro life person say that so I’m wondering if researchers have accounted for the fact that women haven’t been able to terminate non viable pregnancies with fatal fetal anomalies. Seems that’s something someone would have thought to control for.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm wondering. I'm also curious about the following things:
- the growth of maternity care deserts: as OB/GYNs decide to leave areas that have eliminated access to abortion, we're seeing growing areas that (1) don't have a robust system of maternity health providers (2) or any providers, really, who specialize in maternal health care.
- if, even when you control for factors related to a post-Roe world, maternal mortality continues to increase.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr033.pdf found this infographic on cdc’s website. Seems the infant mortality increased significantly due to two main causes: maternal complications and bacterial sepsis of newborns, but NOT due to congenital malformations. This suggests the increase is not because people are aborting fetuses doomed to die. Seems it’s happening last minute during or after birth
Wish the ‘pro life’ folks would turn their attention from abortion to infant mortality. That they care more about abortion suggests to me that they care less about saving lives than they do about dictating how people should live.
Tamar, do you know if the increase in infant mortality rates solely reflects the fact that more women are forced to give birth to babies with congenital defects that are incompatible with life due to the increasing difficulty in getting an abortion in a post-Roe world? I haven't been able to find much that goes into why we're seeing this increase.
I have that question too. I heard one pro life person say that so I’m wondering if researchers have accounted for the fact that women haven’t been able to terminate non viable pregnancies with fatal fetal anomalies. Seems that’s something someone would have thought to control for.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm wondering. I'm also curious about the following things:
- the growth of maternity care deserts: as OB/GYNs decide to leave areas that have eliminated access to abortion, we're seeing growing areas that (1) don't have a robust system of maternity health providers (2) or any providers, really, who specialize in maternal health care.
- if, even when you control for factors related to a post-Roe world, maternal mortality continues to increase.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr033.pdf found this infographic on cdc’s website. Seems the infant mortality increased significantly due to two main causes: maternal complications and bacterial sepsis of newborns, but NOT due to congenital malformations. This suggests the increase is not because people are aborting fetuses doomed to die. Seems it’s happening last minute during or after birth
So does that mean it is unrelated to the abortion restrictions? Is there another cause of decline in maternal care?