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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Texas draconian law is causing significant harm to hundreds of families that are barred from compassionately terminating pregnancies that are incompatible with life.  So there are babies who have no expectation of living more than a few days or weeks who must be carried to term, causing untold costs in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for NICU care, in many cases, causing babies to be born in pain or struggling to live on machines, and in many cases suffering very painful deaths.  It also causes emotional torture and in many cases, irreparable financial harm, to families that are forced to carry these pregnancies to term and pay for the care of babies that are terminal from birth.

And note that other states that have abortion restrictions do not exhibit the same rise in infant mortality because they not only have clauses allowing abortion for pregnancies incompatible with life, but also do not prosecute doctors and hospitals from performing such abortions.  Texas has gone way overboard and this needs to be stopped.  I feel very sorry for young families that choose to live in Texas.

[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-abortion-ban-linked-rise-infant-newborn-deaths-rcna158375[/url]
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[b]Texas abortion ban linked to 13% increase in infant and newborn deaths[/b]

A Texas law that banned abortions in early pregnancy is associated with a stark increase in infant and newborn deaths, a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found.

Lawmakers passed Texas Senate Bill 8, or SB8, in September 2021. The state law banned abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as five weeks. This effectively banned abortion in the state, which used to allow abortion up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.

The law did not include exemptions for congenital anomalies, including conditions that will cause a newborn to die soon after birth.

The new study compared infant death rates in Texas from 2018 to 2022 to those of 28 other states. Infant deaths in Texas rose by nearly 13% the year after SB8 was passed, from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022. During that same period, infant deaths rose by about 2% nationwide. Babies born with congenital anomalies also increased in Texas, by nearly 23%, but decreased by about 3% nationwide.

“This is pointing to a causal effect of the policy; we didn’t see this increase in infant deaths in other states,” said Alison Gemmill, assistant professor of population, family and reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who led the research.

While some congenital anomalies can be corrected after birth, including cleft palate and some heart defects, others are deemed “incompatible with life.”

“The specific increase in deaths attributable to congenital anomalies really makes an ironclad link between the change in the law and the terrible outcomes that they’re seeing for infants and families,” said Nan Strauss, senior policy analyst of maternal health at the National Partnership for Women & Families, who was not involved with the research. “The women and families have to suffer through an excruciating later part of pregnancy, knowing that their baby is likely to die in the first weeks of life.”[/quote]
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The researchers of the new study also highlighted the ripple effect that a newborn or infant’s death can have on a family, including trauma and medical bills.

“Behind these numbers are people,” said Dr. Erika Werner, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts Medical Center, who was not involved in the research. “For each of these pregnancies, that’s a pregnant person who had to stay pregnant for an additional 20 weeks, carrying a pregnancy that they knew likely wouldn’t result in a live newborn baby.”[/quote][/quote]
If the GOP gets back in power, Texas’s abortion laws will become the nation’s abortion laws. [/quote]

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