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Texas had the highest infant mortality rise in the year after Dobbs; infant deaths rose 13%. [3] Many of these deaths were due to fetal abnormalities; deaths due to birth defects went up 23%, as the Texas Heartbeat Act bans all abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for rape, incest or fetal abnormalities. "In the absence of an abortion ...
Texas recorded 14 deaths in this period while New York had 11 in a period where 63 deaths from illegal abortions were reported nationwide. In 1972, Texas had eight illegal abortion deaths. In 1973, it had five. In 1974, the state recorded one illegal abortion death. [123] In 1990, 2,041,000 women in Texas faced the risk of unintended pregnancy ...
The Texas Legislature banned abortion care as early as five weeks into pregnancy in September 2021, nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — the case that protected a ...
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 ...
The neonatal mortality rate – or the death rates of babies younger than 28 days – also increased in Texas by 5.8% but decreased in the rest of the US, the study found.
For 2020, the Guttmacher Institute reported 930,160 abortions, an abortion rate of 14.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, and 20.6 abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in abortion or live birth. [6] Graph of U.S. abortion rates from 1973 to 2020, as reported by the Guttmacher Institute [8] [1] [8] [1] [6] [8] [1] [6]
English: This graph shows data on U.S. abortion rates from 1973 to 2017. The data, collected by the Guttmacher Institute, is taken from the following documents: Jones, Rachel K.; Kooistra, Kathryn (March 2011). "Abortion Incidence and Access to Services in the United States, 2008" (PDF).
An increase in infant deaths followed Texas' anti-abortion heartbeat law, study shows. ... SB 8 became Texas law Sept. 1, 2021, and less than a year later the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v ...