Re:Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared
by joshuamorton on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:23PM
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> That is, if one thinks of abortion as an avoidable disease it's one hell of a disease. And the rates suggest the Health community hasn't solved the root causes by a long shot.
It basically halved from 1990 to 2015, and has increased in correlation with prof-life policies like reduced access to education and contraception.
Re:Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared
by RhysU on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:20AM
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New York has a higher abortion rate than North Carolina [1]. To be consistent with that correlation you raised, New York must be especially poorly educated and condom-starved because New York is certainly not enacting pro-life policies.
The general correlation point I do not doubt. However, the 2015 abortion rates would still make abortion a disease on par with cancer deaths. No health professional would say cancer was solved in 2015.
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/abortion-ra...
It's not clear to me that the Health community is winning that battle based on abortion rates.
For 2023 Guttmacher estimates 1,037,000 abortions were provided by clinicians in states without total bans [1].
Compare the 2022 CDC leading causes of death [2] which starts Heart disease: 702,880; Cancer: 608,371; ...
That is, if one thinks of abortion as an avoidable disease it's one hell of a disease. And the rates suggest the Health community hasn't solved the root causes by a long shot.
[1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-unite...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm