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In 2017, the state had an infant mortality rate of 5.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. [131] The teen birthrate in Texas rose for the first time in 15 years in 2022 following Texas' abortion ban, reversing an effort over the past 30 years to decrease teen pregnancies. 84% of the increased births were Latina teens. [132]
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 effect of Dobbs on the abortion rate will not be known for several years. Abortion data for the four most recent years reported by the Guttmacher Institute appears below. The abortion ratio is the number of abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in an abortion or a live birth. From 2017 through 2020, the abortion rate rose 6.7%. [6]
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 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 ...
Earlier research – spurred by a CNN investigative report - found that infant mortality spiked in Texas after a 6-week abortion ban took effect in 2021, and experts say the new data suggests that ...
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]
A new study has drawn a possible link between rising infant mortality in Texas and the state’s abortion restrictions, which, when they took effect in 2021, were the strictest in the nation.