Infant mortality, along with births in most states, increased the prohibition of miscarriage in the first 18 months after the Supreme Court canceled the ROE V. Wade, according to New search.
Results, in two studies Published Health policy experts say that Thursday in JAMA magazine also indicates that the prohibition of miscarriage can have the most important effects on people who are struggling economically or in other types of difficult circumstances.
Alyssa Bellinski, a professor of health policy in a number of different reasons, said that the groups that are likely to have children as a result of the Brace of Braun University, which did not participate in the research.
Alison Jimmel, one of the researchers, an epidemic specialist in the Population, Family and Genital Health Department at Jones Hopkins Bloomberg School at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School at Jones School Hopkins Bloomberg at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School at Jones Hopkins Bloomberg School, one of the researchers, a population scientist and epidemic specialist in the Population, Family and genital health department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School in the Population, Family and Reproductive Health Department, and he is one of the researchers, one of the researchers, and is a specialist Epidemiology in the Population, Family and Genital Health Department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School in the Population, Family and Reproductive Health Department, which is a turban that the infant mortality rate was 6 percent higher than what is expected in the states that carried out the ban. public health. This number reflects the increases in nine cases, decreases in four and there is no change in one.
Dr. Jimmel said that among the black children of Spanish origin, the deaths were 11 percent higher after carrying out the abortion ban than expected. Also, there were more children who were born with congenital congenital defects, and the situations in which women were able to end pregnancy if not for a miscarriage.
In general, the researchers found that in the states that carried out a ban on abortion or the ban after six weeks during that period, there were 478 more deaths than children in their first year of their lives after carrying out the ban more than expected based on the data of previous years.
Birth increases were higher among societies with social and economic defects and in countries that have the worst results of the mother and child health.
“What happens when the abortion is prohibited is to create tremendous inequality in reaching miscarriage,” said Ketlin Maires of Middlebury College. He studies similar abortion data But he did not participate in the new research.
Studies have evaluated data from birth and death certificates and census records for all the fifty states of January 2012 to December 2023. This time frame allowed researchers to compare trends in births and infants deaths in the years before the Supreme Court that canceled the national right to abortion in June 2022 with data on 18 A month later.
At that time, 14 states had carried out a ban on abortion or the ban after six weeks during that period. Now 16 they have.
While national data showed that due to factors such as remote medicine and travel outside the country, Abortion rates have already increased in general Dr. Mayer said that since the Supreme Court ruling, this does not mean that everyone who needs miscarriage or abortion can get a miscarriage.
She said that the research showed that their dynamics were behind the increase in infant deaths. One aspect is that when a woman is not allowed to end pregnancy for fetuses with congenital anomalies, children often die within days or weeks after birth.
The other side is that women who cannot obtain miscarriages by traveling to other states or by requesting the pill by mail “more likely to develop women, and more likely to women, and that these population have rates higher than the mother and deaths said Mairez: “Complications, infant mortality.”
Susan Bell, a co -author of studies and professor in the same department in Johns Hopkins, said in the role of Dr. Jimmel, that many of the total increase was driven by data from Texas. Dr. Bell said that all the deaths of the 478 -year -old infants were in Texas, which has much larger population than any other ban.
The research found that infant mortality in Texas was 9.4 percent higher after the abortion ban was carried out. In the other eight countries that showed a ban showed increases, this rate ranged from a 1.3 percent increase in Mississippi to an 8.6 percent increase in Kentucky.
The researchers attributed the dominant influence of Texas on data in part to the fact that in September 2021, about nine months before the DobBS decision at the Supreme Court, Texas carried out a strict ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Dr. Bell, another factor, said that before that time, a relatively high rate of Texas women who are looking for abortion operations were able to obtain them from health care providers there, but after closing the ban, clinics and other abortion services, forcing women to travel distances Long across that sprawling condition.
In many other states, Dr. Bell said, there were already a very few abortion offices before the ban, so women were “already traveling outside the state or were not already able to get abortion.”
Five states did not appear with a ban on infant deaths than expected. In Louisiana, the rate has not changed. In the state of Idaho, Missouri, West Virginia Weskonsen, the rate decreased. The researchers said that this is likely that the neighboring states, including Illinois, Washington and Maryland provides expanded access to miscarriage.
In addition, they said, the population composition and the relatively low social and economic situation of the population in most of the southern states contributed to the high infant mortality rate and birth assault after imposing a miscarriage.
Dr. Jamil said: “There are very long differences in these results formed by the state’s policies.”
Abortion opponents said they had a different explanation of the data.
“All these” extra “children who were born were killed in induced abortion. “This means that any depressing person is the results of this study not really concerned about the death of these children. Instead, they wish to be killed earlier: in the womb.”
The birth data analysis found that in the states with a ban on miscarriage, the birth rate per 1,000 women of childbearing age increased by 1.7 percent more than expected from previous years data.
“It may seem that the change of 1.7 percent in the fertility rate is not a big problem, but it is actually a very big problem,” said Dr. Jamemel. She said that the population composition considered this increase of great importance and noted that it was higher than the 1.4 percent increase in births related to Covid.
The researchers said that the countries that have a ban on abortion translate that increase into 22,180 births more than expected.
Dr. Bellinski, who wrote a written article accompanying studies, said the results provided an opportunity to collect efforts to improve support and financing systems for pregnant women and infants – regardless of the individual opinions on abortion.
“These papers will not resolve the differences over abortion in this country,” she said. “People will look at these papers, especially the results related to the plays of births, and I think they have very different reactions.”
But no one supports death. She said: “We must want to prevent infant mortality, and in many cases it is possible to prevent infant mortality.” She added: “If we are in a world where perhaps the number of people who have not planned them did not plan and did not feel prepared to become religion, then we must think about the meaning of supporting these families in real and unfinished path.”
Dr. Bellinski said that the results of the study emphasized the need for policies and programs such as Medicaid, tax credit for children, parents ’leave and child care at reasonable prices.
She said: “I hope that as a country, given these results, we can all agree that these children and families must have the opportunity to prosper.”
