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An almost complete abortion ban in the US state of Texas has been linked to a rise in infant deaths and in the number of babies born with congenital anomalies.
The findings, made by a team led by demographer and epidemiologist Alison Gemmill of Johns Hopkins University, suggests that such bans can have very serious and unintended impacts on the lives and health of the community.,"the results suggest that restrictive abortion policies may have important unintended consequences in terms of trauma to families and medical cost as a result of increases in infant mortality.
The records showed that, in the specified timeframe, there were 102,391 infant deaths in the US, with 10,351 of those in Texas. Between 2021 and 2022, the rate rose from 1,985 to 2,240. That's 255 additional infant deaths in 2022, a total increase of 12.9 percent.
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