When my wife was pregnant with our first-born, my mother went with her to her first ultrasound appointment. To add a little back-story, I had a baby brother who was born when I was about 4 (1967). He had multiple birth defects and so many things wrong that he only lived 16 days. Needless to say, this affected my mom deeply. My wife told me that my mom cried while seeing her soon-to-be grandson on the screen and told her that if that technology had been available when she was pregnant with my brother that she would have terminated the pregnancy without a second thought. When I think of the pain and depression she lived with for pretty much the rest of her life, and then think about how the repukelican party want's to force other women to go through that same agony too just makes me want to start hurling molotov cocktails into a trump rally...

So if

1. Conservatives think that abortion is murder

2. and there are more infants dying

3. but fewer abortions being performed

Doesn't that mean they should consider their infant mortality rate exactly the same as before?

edit: Cause, if the above is true, but their infant mortality rate is going up, we can draw a straight line between the decrease of abortions and the increase of infant deaths. Of course, Conservative feelings don't care about facts.

Pro-Life™️

This is your brain on conservatism.

Also that abortion training is becoming difficult to obtain for young doctors even in states where it is legal. Also, that maternal deaths increased 25% in the year after Dobbs was ruled. This is not about abortion. It is about women's and baby's health. But this population is too stupid to understand it. Too stupid or cruel or revengeful.

the difference is, the conservatives want infants to suffer and die rather than not suffering and dying. thats it. they need humans to suffer.

Yeah but if those deaths would have been abortions anyway its a win to the forced birthers

Republicans are killing babies!

Just as god intended!

Republicans are killing women and babies because they are incucks. They are being chucked by people they don't even know and it eats them up from the inside.

Good god the methodology.

If you count abortions as deaths, which the state of Texas would, hence making it illegal, it's impossible that they went up. But even without that...

If more infants are born, because less abortions are happening of course, some of those are going to die.

Neither of these are particularly noteworthy.

Did deaths as a percentage of births go up? If not, this isn't news at all.