Infant mortality up 5.6% in states with abortion bans, restrictions Report estimates an extra 478 infant deaths that would otherwise not have occurred Mortality increase greater for babies with ...

Across the 14 states where abortions were banned or prohibited after 6 weeks of pregnancy by laws that took effect between September 2021 and August 2022, there have been an estimated 478 infant ...

Infant Mortality Rises in States With Abortion Bans, Study Finds By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe ...

However, people who are poor, nonwhite and live in Southern states also now bear higher infant deaths and increased births because they lack access to abortion services. Anti-abortion activists ...