More Texas babies than ever in recent history are escaping pre-term murder after the state enacted a heartbeat law in 2021, but corporate media are using a new study that blames the lifesaving protections for a jump in infant mortality to vilify pro-life policies and promote Democrats’ extreme abortion agenda.
The data, published in JAMA Pediatrics this week, claims there was an 8.3 percent increase in infant deaths in the Lone Star State after the lifesaving law, which bars abortion beyond the presence of a fetal heartbeat except in certain cases, went into effect in September 2021.
The study and its authors seem to suggest that infants suffering from a congenital abnormality, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pins as the leading cause of baby deaths in the U.S., are better off being murdered in the womb than having a fighting chance to meet their parents face to face and survive with the help of medical intervention after birth.
“Some — but not all — of the increase we found was likely due to forced continuation of pregnancies with known lethal congenital anomalies,” one of the authors, Alison Gemmill, wrote on X.
The study itself had several problems including the lack of a statistically significant increase that its internal tables prove and an admitted failure to account for other contributing factors such as the state’s massive increase in births over the last three years, and conflating correlation with causation.
Even the groundwork for the study doesn’t quite add up. Johns
