Mississippi better got a lot more pro-life fast

[Greenbeard]

By some estimates, in a post-Dobbs world Mississippi will be seeing more than 5,000 additional births each year.

Unfortunately Mississippi is already the deadliest state for babies (and mothers, for that matter). And doesn't seem to be all that interested in doing anything about that.

Officials: Mississippi Unprepared For 5,000 More Babies Born Yearly After Dobbs Ruling

Mississippi has the highest infant mortality rate, which measures how many infants die in Mississippi before their first birthday. New CDC data released on the day of the first hearing showed that, in 2020, 8.12 out of 1,000 babies in Mississippi died before their first birthday, compared to the national average of 5.4.

CDC data also shows that Mississippi leads the nation in births to unmarried mothers, preterm births, miscarriages and low birthweight rates. Mississippi has one of the nation’s highest maternal mortality rates. In each instance, Black and other non-white infants and mothers fared significantly worse than white ones.

From 2013 to 2016, Mississippi’s pregnancy-related maternal mortality rate was 1.9 times higher than the U.S. as a whole, with Black women at three times the risk of white women.

More than half of Mississippi’s 82 counties do not have an OB-GYN, and many do not have hospitals. Less than a month before the Dobbs decision, a Hancock County hospital closed its labor and delivery department.

During the last legislative term alone, Speaker Gunn killed or declined to support efforts to provide health care options for new mothers. . .

In March, though, the bill died for the second year in a row after Mississippi House leaders refused to put it to a vote. Gunn acknowledged to AP’s Emily Wagster Pettus that his decision to spike the bill came from a fear of the appearance of “Medicaid expansion.”

 

[TheParser]

Yes.

Everyone should encourage the pro-choice movement in that state.

Opponents are harming women's health and Mississippi society.

 

[Gordy327]

Yes.

Everyone should encourage the pro-choice movement in that state.

Or "pro-abortion" too.

Opponents are harming women's health and Mississippi society.

It won't just be Mississippi. Anywhere there are restrictive abortion laws or bans, women's health is jeopardized. It's also going to lead to an increase in burden on society in the long run.

 

[btthegreat]

By some estimates, in a post-Dobbs world Mississippi will be seeing more than 5,000 additional births each year.

Unfortunately Mississippi is already the deadliest state for babies (and mothers, for that matter). And doesn't seem to be all that interested in doing anything about that.

Officials: Mississippi Unprepared For 5,000 More Babies Born Yearly After Dobbs Ruling

By many civilized standards, Mississippi is as close to a third world experience as our country has to offer and the people of Mississippi seem to prefer it stay that way. Why do we keep wasting federal tax dollars on them?

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

By many civilized standards, Mississippi is as close to a third world experience as our country has to offer and the people of Mississippi seem to prefer it stay that way. Why do we keep wasting federal tax dollars on them?

There's this insane belief that these marginal states somehow have some kind of value to the republic.
I've yet to see any proof of that.

 

[Greenbeard]

By many civilized standards, Mississippi is as close to a third world experience as our country has to offer and the people of Mississippi seem to prefer it stay that way. Why do we keep wasting federal tax dollars on them?

How else would Brett Favre fund his college athletic facilities projects?

 

[Greenbeard]

Or "pro-abortion" too.

It won't just be Mississippi. Anywhere there are restrictive abortion laws or bans, women's health is jeopardized. It's also going to lead to an increase in burden on society in the long run.

Turns out the more “pro-life” a state is, the worse its record on life is.

States pushing abortion bans have higher infant mortality rates

A growing number of states have been passing highly restrictive abortion legislation aimed at overturning Roe V. Wade.

www.nbcnews.com

States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows

 

[btthegreat]

There's this insane belief that these marginal states somehow have some kind of value to the republic.
I've yet to see any proof of that.

Maybe letting them remain Confederate states of America would have been better for all of us.

 

[Fearandloathing]

Turns out the more “pro-life” a state is, the worse its record on life is.

States pushing abortion bans have higher infant mortality rates

A growing number of states have been passing highly restrictive abortion legislation aimed at overturning Roe V. Wade.

www.nbcnews.com

States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows

I have a gut feeling that the figures speak to poverty more than they do the political weaponizing of abortion. When faced with no alternative people on the poverty line are already sacrificing to make ends meet. Adding a child increases risk of everything from falling down to not being properly supervised and eat poison.
The right always fails to recognize the economics of their ideology. They know when the 2% get a tax cut. That's it.

 

[Gordy327]

Turns out the more “pro-life” a state is, the worse its record on life is.

States pushing abortion bans have higher infant mortality rates

A growing number of states have been passing highly restrictive abortion legislation aimed at overturning Roe V. Wade.

www.nbcnews.com

States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows

Quite ironic too. But the pro-life mentality tends to have an inverse relationship between life quantity and quality.

Maybe letting them remain Confederate states of America would have been better for all of us.

Hindsight is 20/20, right?

 

[Indydave]

Maybe letting them remain Confederate states of America would have been better for all of us.

as a southerner I can attest to the fact that many Mississippians as with many southerners have never gotten over the Civil War......white southerners are raised with a pride that can be truly hard to understand......most working class southerners love to assume the mantel of the genteel southern plantation owner of yesteryear when in reality millions of them live on the government programs created by liberal democrats......had it not been for Roosevelt and the CCC programs and TVA the South would still be struggling to progress......white southerners by nature and by raising are nationalist and religiously conservative......closet Jim Crow is very much a reality in the South......