A rise in infant deaths in Texas is linked to the state’s abortion ban passed in 2021, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. Analysts out of Johns Hopkins University and ...

Texas lawmakers touted their heartbeat law as an effort to save lives, but the state's near-total ban on abortion appears to have triggered an increase in infant deaths, according to a new study ...

A rise in infant deaths in Texas is linked to the state’s abortion ban passed in 2021, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. Analysts out of Johns Hopkins University and ...

Neonatal mortality, or deaths of children less than 28 days of age, rose by 10.4% in Texas but just 1.6% nationally. In both cases, the rates of mortality per 1000 live births increased in Texas by ...

Following state legislation passed in 2021 that essentially banned abortion in Texas, the rate of infant deaths rose by almost 13%, compared to a much smaller 1.8% rise nationwide, a new study finds.

The new JAMA Pediatrics study found that, between 2021 and 2022, infant deaths in Texas surged 12.9%, compared with a much smaller increase in the rest of the US of 1.8%.

Abbott’s words now ring particularly hollow in light of a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics that reveals infant deaths in Texas starkly increased following ...

Texas enacted a ban on abortions in 2021, and new data suggests that infant deaths rose soon after Deaths linked to birth defects rose especially sharply a year after the ban Experts worry the ...

Gemmill's research found in 2021 there were 1,985 infant deaths in Texas occurring before a child reached one year old. After the state's abortion law took effect those numbers spiked.

In the researchers’ counterfactual analysis, which used data from Texas and eligible comparison states, there was an excess of 216 infant deaths (95% CI, 122 to 554) from March to December 2022 ...

Texas leaders promised that the ban, enacted 10 months before Roe was overturned, would “save” newborn lives. A protester at Trafalgar Square following the abortion ban in Texas, on October 2 ...

Experts worry the Texas data is but a harbinger of national trends to come, following the 2022 Dobbs decision MONDAY, June 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Following state legislation passed in 2021 ...