The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision continues to get worse

If the intention is to capsize Roe v. Wade The goal of the project was to save children’s lives, but this failed.

The new study was published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics found that U.S. infant mortality worsened after the Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned its landmark decision allowing states to enact their own restrictions on abortion.

The death rate for infants with severe anatomical problems within six months by the end of 2023 was significantly higher than before the case was decided. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization researchers found. During this period, the researchers also found three months when the country’s overall infant mortality rate increased.

Medical experts saw the point: Dobbs The decision prevented some women from receiving intensive medical care during pregnancy that would otherwise have resulted in abortion.

“There’s a really simple mechanism here,” said Alison Gemmill, a demographer and perinatal epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Los Angeles Times.

“Before these abortion bans, people had the option to terminate an abortion if the fetus was found to have a severe congenital abnormality—we’re talking about organs outside the body and other things that are very serious and incompatible with life.” – said Gemmill.

But because patients are forced to continue their pregnancies, “these babies die soon after birth,” Gemmill told the publication. Time.

Stricter restrictions on abortion may be on the horizon. Donald Trump, Project 2025 and the Republican Party have worked overtime to attack access to abortion, from fighting for a national abortion ban to celebrating coming US restrictions on other, related reproductive procedures such as in vitro fertilization.

Meanwhile, the lack of national protection for the critical procedure has spelled disaster for women in states that have already enacted draconian laws. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that even emergency abortions violate Texas’ strict abortion ban, despite the supposed emergency abortion clause of the law, effectively ruling that women in the Lone Star State will never be able to obtain help to terminate a pregnancy, even if their life depends on it.