Hey Republicans, where have all the babies gone?

Newborn babies are the latest victims in the ongoing Republican War on Women,

trademark.

The most recent deadly aspect of the crisis started with Donald Trump proudly putting three

anti-abortion Catholics on the Supreme Court promising America that they'd

overturn Roe v. Wade. He sure delivered on that. It's probably the only promise

he's kept in his entire life.

Multiple pregnant red state women have over the past year or so told harrowing stories about almost dying before doctors were willing to give them health care for fear of going to prison because of draconian state

abortion bans.

But now we learn that GOP policies aren't just capable of killing women.

They appear to have killed at least 20,000 newborn babies in 2022, as Red States across the country

instituted abortion bans in the wake of the Dobbs decision by six Republicans

on the US Supreme Court.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's

National Center for Health Statistics

reported that after a steady 25-year decline

in infant mortality, America saw a full 3% increase in dead newborn

babies during the first Dobbs year. The statistics for 2023 will come out

next year.

White women were hit the hardest, suggesting this isn't another example of health

outcome disparities resulting from structural and institutional racism, but instead

a direct result of Republican abortion bans altering the way physicians and hospitals are practicing medicine.

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