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24 cze 2024 · A study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers estimates that infant deaths in Texas increased more than expected in the year following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion in early pregnancy, especially among infants with congenital anomalies.
27 cze 2024 · A new study focused on Texas looks at the year after its law banning all abortions after six weeks with no exceptions for rape, incest or fetal abnormalities.
26 cze 2024 · In 2022, the year after the state’s six-week abortion ban took effect, deaths of infants before their first birthdays increased 13 percent, an analysis published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics...
24 cze 2024 · In order to establish the ban’s potential impact on infant mortality, the researchers looked at deaths that occurred starting in March 2022. Babies born in that month were about 10 to 14 weeks...
Texas’ abortion ban, known as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, prohibits abortions of fetuses with a detectable heartbeat, which can be as early as about 5 weeks’ gestation. Neonatal deaths—or deaths of infants younger than 28 days—also increased after the introduction of SB8, the researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics .
26 cze 2024 · In 2021, Texas passed Senate Bill 8, also referred to as the Texas Heartbeat Act, banning most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected—as early as five or six weeks of pregnancy. Birth certificate data from 2022 show an increase in infant mortality in the state.
24 cze 2024 · 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.
