Abortion bans in the United States are exacerbating existing health disparities as births increase in high-risk populations ...

(Reuters) - Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions ...

Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...

Lawmakers in Alabama's House have passed a bill expediting Medicaid for pregnant women in a state with one of the highest ...

Abortion ban in the United States has led to an increase in the infant mortality rate. A new study has found that banned abortion had the biggest impact on Black infants and southern states.

Infant mortality and births increased in the majority of states that had abortion bans in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, according to two new studies.

States that implemented abortion bans had higher infant mortality rates. A new study finds that the infant mortality rate for births connected to the abortion ban were higher than expected.

With about 500 more deaths than expected among the 22,000 additional births, the infant mortality rate for births linked to abortion bans – 24 deaths for every 1,000 births – was about four ...

“This study found that states that banned abortion had infant mortality rates higher than would have been expected without such bans,” wrote the researchers of the study. “The largest ...

“The groups that are most likely to have children as a result of abortion bans are also individuals who are most likely, for a number of different reasons, to have higher rates of infant ...