The “prolife” ppl want to think they could save 1M babies a yr by eliminating #RoeVsWade but no one ever says what they would do w those add’l babies! MS & TX rank dead last & fifth from the bottom, respectively, in the Annie E. Casey measure of childhood welfare.
2/Of the anti-abortion states, 15 ranked among the 25 states with the largest share of children living in poverty as of 2019.
The high childhood poverty rate in 13 anti-abortion states is far above the nat’l average of 14.4%. TX alone has 1.4M 👧 living in poverty.
The high childhood poverty rate in 13 anti-abortion states is far above the nat’l average of 14.4%. TX alone has 1.4M 👧 living in poverty.
3/16 also rank in the top half of states for largest share of 👧 living in "extreme" poverty (w incomes half or less of nat’l poverty level or roughly $13,000 for a fam of 4).14 fall in the top half of states for the biggest share of 👦 reporting that they have experienced hunger
4/The charade is up," says Kristin Ford, vice president of communications and research at NARAL Pro-Choice America. "This is not about families. This is not about supporting women. This is about controlling people. Period. End of story."
5/The anti-abortion states are also disproportionately represented on the list of those w the most 👧 who are born prematurely or w low birth weights, or who 💀 as infants, according to data collected by the Center for Health and Social Policy at the U of TX.
6/Fourteen rank among the 25 states with the highest share of kids born prematurely; 13 rank in the top half for children born with low birth weights. All born to mothers without
7/15 of the 21 states that would restrict or bar women from terminating pregnancies rank in the top half of states for the highest share of infant 💀 in the 1st year of life. The list incl all but 1 of the 11 states w the absolute worst records on that critical metric --
8/about seven deaths or more per 1,000 live births. (By contrast, states without anti-abortion statutes comprise 12 of the 15 states with the lowest rate of infant mortality.)
Source: cnn.com/2021/12/14/pol…
Source: cnn.com/2021/12/14/pol…
9/Fully 28% of MS children under 18 live in poverty, a higher share than in any other state. (The poverty rate is over 40% for Black & Hispanic 👧 there, triple the rate for white kids.) MS also has a higher share of children living in extreme poverty than any other state.
10/More than 1 in 7 👶🏼 there are born prematurely & about 1 in 8 are born w low birth weights -- in each case also the highest rate for any state. (For Black children, that rises to more than 1 in 6 on each measure.) MS mothers suffer 9 infant deaths for every 1,000 live births…
11/-- also the highest number for any state. One reason for those results: The state ranks 4th from the bottom for the share of low-income women of childbearing age who lack health ins.
Yet they want more babies born?
Yet they want more babies born?
12/The poor birth outcomes are "a situation that is so preventable, but since we are not doing the work to prevent it, it has devastating outcomes for so many," says Nyandoro.
Overturning #RoeVWade will disproportionately affect Black & Brown ppl & poor ppl the most.
Overturning #RoeVWade will disproportionately affect Black & Brown ppl & poor ppl the most.
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