wilkes

No healthy fetus should be aborted except when it's necessary to save the mother's life, and then only with the mother's consent.

Well said.

No healthy fetus should be aborted except when it's necessary to save the mother's life, and then only with the mother's consent. If the mother's physical or mental condition makes impractical for her to do so the decision should be made by the next of kin. If a woman should choose to knowingly give birth to a mentally or physically defective child, the burden of that child's future care should be borne by her.

She has produced a life.

I think it a waste to throw away such a privilege.

Forcing a womman to carry a pregnancy to term is about as sensible as forcing her to continue with heartbeats or rbc production.

It's called life.

We've been doing it since creation.

Note from GoNC: this post was removed for trolling and personal attacks.

Are you saying that you're OK with the government forcing women to carry pregnancies to term, and incurring all financial costs from it, even when they know that there's no chance that the fetus could survive?

Abortion clinics are linked to a 50% death rate amongst their clientele.

A Texas law that banned abortions in early pregnancy is associated with a stark increase in infant and newborn deaths, a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found.

Lawmakers passed Texas Senate Bill 8, or SB8, in September 2021. The state law banned abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as five weeks. This effectively banned abortion in the state, which used to allow abortion up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.

The law did not include exemptions for congenital anomalies, including conditions that will cause a newborn to die soon after birth.

The new study compared infant death rates in Texas from 2018 to 2022 to those of 28 other states. The data included newborns 28 days or younger and infants up to 12 months old. Infant deaths in Texas rose by nearly 13% the year after SB8 was passed, from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022. During that same period, infant deaths rose by about 2% nationwide.

Babies born with congenital anomalies also increased in Texas, by nearly 23%, but decreased by about 3% nationwide.

"This is pointing to a causal effect of the policy; we didn't see this increase in infant deaths in other states," said Alison Gemmill, assistant professor of population, family and reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who led the research.

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The researchers of the new study also highlighted the ripple effect that a newborn or infant's death can have on a family, including trauma and medical bills.

"Behind these numbers are people," said Dr. Erika Werner, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts Medical Center, who was not involved in the research. "For each of these pregnancies, that's a pregnant person who had to stay pregnant for an additional 20 weeks, carrying a pregnancy that they knew likely wouldn't result in a live newborn baby."