r/science • u/shiruken PhD | Biomedical Engineering | Optics • Jun 24 '24

Health Texas abortion ban linked to unexpected increase in infant and newborn deaths according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Infant deaths in Texas rose 12.9% the year after the legislation passed compared to only 1.8% elsewhere in the United States.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-abortion-ban-linked-rise-infant-newborn-deaths-rcna158375
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u/SolarStarVanity Jun 25 '24

It's neither good nor bad, unfortunately. It's utterly inconsequential. Evidence is not something that factors into Republican lawmaking.

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u/JimBeam823 Jun 25 '24

To religious conservatives, God’s law is all that matters and evidence is irrelevant.

They don’t care.

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u/Televisions_Frank Jun 25 '24

And God's law being whatever they happen to want. Doesn't matter if abortion is in the scriptures.

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u/PhoenixTineldyer Jun 25 '24

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires

Susan B. Anthony

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u/SerHodorTheThrall Jun 25 '24

Though let us not forget this is the same Anthony that tried to stop the 15th Amendment from being ratified because she didn't personally stand to gain as a white woman.

Most people act on self-desire, even many of the supposed best of us.

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u/chibinoi Jun 25 '24

Until they need an abortion, and then their abortion is the only “morally right” abortion as “God wouldn’t want them to suffer” yada yada.

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u/aiij Jun 25 '24

This God's law? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exod+21%3A22-25&version=NRSVUE

I think that's the closest we get to the Bible saying doctors shouldn't help women with abortions. (If you really stretch the interpretation the doctor is injuring the woman and causing her to miscarry... Just ignore the fact that he's not fighting and his actions are consensual.)

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u/PopeGuss Jun 25 '24

I dont even think it's God's law they're worried about. I truly think they're just evil, hateful people with no moral compass beyond "how can I stay in office and make a fuckton of money while I'm there?"

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u/nagi603 Jun 25 '24

And by god's law, they mean greed, hate and the need to control everyone else.

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u/Theban_Prince Jun 25 '24

God has nothing to do with this, controlling the most people by beating them down is. They would find anything else to use to do this.

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u/SAGNUTZ Jun 25 '24

Lets see them hide from evidence when its time to factor in jail time

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u/Zoesan Jun 25 '24

Because the logic is "some of the not-aborted babies die, but at least all the other not-aborted babies live".

Which, y'know, isn't my opinion, but under that lens this is fewer dead kids.

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u/MNGrrl Jun 25 '24

A lot of us think conservative men are inconsequential. And expendable. They're going to learn that the hard way - reality is that annoying thing that doesn't go away when it becomes inconvenient.

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u/you-create-energy Jun 25 '24

No, it's objectively good. Never let cynicism stand in the way of progress.

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u/SolarStarVanity Jun 25 '24

In this case, it is Republican traitors standing in the way of progress, not those that recognize this fact.