A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics reveals a concerning rise in infant deaths in Texas following the implementation of Senate Bill 8 (SB8), a 2021 law banning abortions after embryonic ...

New data from Texas shows a possible consequence of abortion bans: a rise in infant mortality. In 2022, the year after the state’s six-week abortion ban took effect, deaths of infants before ...

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 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 ...

The first year of life is one of the most vulnerable. Around the state and the country, infant mortality rates are rising In Texas, research has found that the highest infant death rate in the ...

Researchers said this suggests a rise in cases where women are forced ... Gemmill's research found in 2021 there were 1,985 infant deaths in Texas occurring before a child reached one year old.

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Infant mortality is rising faster than expected in states with strict abortion limits or bans. Two new studies in the medical journal JAMA reveal how ...

SAN ANTONIO - For former Texas State Senator Leticia Van de Putte, ... But despite efforts like this, SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths are on the rise in Bexar County.