USA Today
Eduardo Cuevas
**TW: This story contains discussion of infant deaths**
The article details two researchers from John Hopkins University have conducted a study where they looked at data from 2012 to 2023 to determine how abortion bans have affected infant mortality rates. As shown in the past, bans have lead to decreased care and have disproportionately affected communities of color and those in the South.
- The research showed an additional 478 infant deaths, with infant deaths being 5.6% more than they would have been without bans. Deaths from birth defects increased by 10%, and deaths from complications during birth 4%.
- Black infants died at an 11% rate higher than expected, and Black women are more likely to die than other mothers. Birth rates were higher for Black, Latino, and other people of color.