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 ...

Overall, the number of infant deaths in Texas rose by nearly 13% – from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022 – compared with a roughly 2% rise in deaths found among other states. READ: Where ...

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 new study has drawn a possible link between rising infant mortality in Texas and the state’s abortion restrictions, which, when they took effect in 2021, were the strictest in the nation.

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.

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.

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 ...

There was a nearly 13% increase infant deaths in Texas after the state implemented a ban on abortion in early pregnancy in 2021, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics.

In the study, infant mortality and excess births increased by far the most in Texas, which was responsible for 73% of excess births and 80% of excess deaths. Texas introduced an abortion ban ...

But in Texas, the number of infants who died increased significantly more — 2,240 infants died, 255 more than in 2021, an increase of 13%. About one-fifth of infant deaths in the United States ...