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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From 1981 through 2017, the abortion rate fell by more than half, falling faster in Democratic administrations than Republican ones. The abortion rate fell below the 1973 rate in 2012 and continued to fall through 2017, when it stood at 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age. The abortion rate then rose from 2018 through 2020.
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 the period 2013 – 2019, the rate of mortality from legal abortion procedures in the US was 0.43 abortion-related deaths per 100,000 reported legal abortions, lower than the rates for previous 5-year periods. [325] In 2019, there were four identified deaths related to abortion in the US, out of 625,000 abortions. [325]
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 ...