A major Massachusetts hospital group will no longer automatically file child abuse or neglect reports for babies who are born with illegal drugs in their systems.
Mass General Brigham, the state’s largest hospital network, <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/updating-system-policies-perinatal-testing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Tuesday that babies born with “substance exposure” will no longer be immediately reported to state welfare agencies unless there are other concerns that the baby is being abused or neglected.
&#8220;&#8216;Substance exposure&#8217; alone, including treatment with methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, does not require a report of abuse or neglect in the absence of protective concerns for the infant,&#8221; Mass General Brigham <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/updating-system-policies-perinatal-testing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Tuesday release.
An abuse or neglect report to the state should only be filed if there is &#8220;reasonable cause to believe that the infant is suffering or at imminent risk of suffering physical or emotional injury&#8221; under the new policy.
Under the new policy, hospitals will also require written consent outside of emergencies before conducting a drug test on newborns or mothers.
The hospital system <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mass-general-brigham-changing-infant-neglect-report/3327237/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> &#8220;racial and ethnic inequities,&#8221; saying that &#8220;more punitive approaches&#8221; to substance abuse during pregnancy &#8220;disproportionately affect Black individuals.&#8221;
&#8220;Studies — including some within our system — have found that Black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested and to be reported to child welfare systems than white pregnant people,&#8221; the hospital system said.
The previous reporting requirement for babies born with drugs in their systems was criticized because it included women taking opioid addiction medications like buprenorphine or methadone, which babies can be born dependent on.
Some women have <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/06/03/study-stop-mandatory-child-abuse-reporting-for-infants-exposed-to-addiction-medications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> stopping their medications out of fear of losing custody of their babies.
The new policy is meant to &#8220;reduce stigma&#8221; and improve access to substance abuse treatment, the hospital group said.
“Our new perinatal testing and reporting policy is the latest step in our efforts to address longstanding inequities in substance use disorder care and to provide compassionate, evidence-based support to families, while addressing substance use disorder as a treatable health condition,” <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/04/02/these-massachusetts-hospitals-wont-automatically-file-neglect-reports-for-babies-born-with-drugs-in-their-systems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sarah Wakeman, the hospital system&#8217;s senior medical director for substance use disorder.
“The goal here is balancing the safety of infants and families,” Wakeman <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/04/03/mass-general-brigham-newborn-drug-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.“A positive toxicology test does not tell you anything about someone’s ability to parent. Actually, a positive buprenorphine test tells you this person is engaged in treatment.”
Mass General Brigham has labor rooms in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Boston Medical Center previously made a similar change to its policy on reporting newborns born dependent on drugs their mother was taking.

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‘Racial Inequities:’ Massachusetts Hospital Group Won’t Automatically File Neglect Reports For Babies Born With Drugs In Systems

Massachusetts Hospital Group Won't Automatically File Neglect Reports For Babies Born With Drugs In Systems

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A prominent national pro-life group says it is clearing up the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;pro-abortion myths&#8221; ahead of the president&#8217;s State of the Union address this week.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said Wednesday that the Biden administration uses &#8220;fearmongering tactics&#8221; to push an agenda of &#8220;painful, late-term abortions nationwide.&#8221;
The group is also releasing a new ad accusing the Biden administration of lying about state abortion bans endangering women&#8217;s health.
&#8220;Joe Biden is lying. State laws protecting unborn children allow doctors to act during a medical emergency,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxGv5SnmMXE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad says</a>. &#8220;While Biden briefly talks about abortion in his address, there will be thousands of pregnancy resource centers caring for women, providing health care, education, housing, and job assistance.&#8221;
President Biden will deliver his State of the Union address on Thursday.
In the wake of the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision reversing Roe vs. Wade, doctors were afraid of the new state abortion bans, and mainstream medical organizations, which tend to favor abortion, &#8220;refused to provide guidance,&#8221; according to Dr. Ingrid Skop, M.D., the director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of SBA Pro-Life America.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important to realize that even prior to Dobbs 90% or more of obstetricians did not do elective abortion,&#8221; Skop told reporters during a call Wednesday.
&#8220;Most of the hospitals that we practice in are Catholic, Methodist, Baptist. Those hospitals do not do elective abortions, and yet doctors always knew if there was a life-threatening emergency how they could intervene,&#8221; Skop said.
Meanwhile, abortion advocates have &#8220;backed the president into a corner,&#8221; forcing him to share the &#8220;egregious and extreme&#8221; policy position of second and third-trimester abortions, Stephen Billy, vice president of state affairs at SBA Pro-Life America said during Wednesday&#8217;s call.
&#8220;But they know the American people don&#8217;t support that extreme policy position and so they&#8217;re having to use tragedies to advance their political agenda,&#8221; Billy said.
First Lady Jill Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-will-bring-kate-cox-who-left-texas-for-abortion-to-state-of-the-union">plans to bring</a> Kate Cox, a woman who left Texas to get an abortion, as her guest to the State of the Union.
Cox, 31, made headlines in December when she was denied an abortion in Texas for her unborn baby with a fetal anomaly and left to obtain the abortion out of state. Cox was more than 20 weeks pregnant with a baby who had a condition called trisomy 18, which involves having an extra chromosome 18 and can cause abnormalities like heart defects.
Cox’s legal team had <a href="https://reproductiverights.org/texas-woman-who-needs-emergency-abortion-forced-to-flee-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that continuing the pregnancy threatened Cox’s future fertility.
However, in December the Texas Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-woman-denied-abortion-of-baby-with-fetal-anomaly-leaves-state-to-obtain-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> against Cox, ruling that she was not entitled to a medical exception abortion under the state’s abortion ban.
Texas law <a href="https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.171.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> for abortions only when a pregnancy seriously threatens the life of the woman or carries “a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function.”
About 95% of trisomy 18 pregnancies <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080804190753/http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic652.htm#section~Introduction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">result</a> in a miscarriage. However, some babies do survive past birth and can live into their toddler years, teen years, or even longer. A woman believed to be one of the oldest people with the condition <a href="https://www.fox23.com/news/local/oklahoma-city-woman-is-one-of-the-oldest-in-the-world-with-this-rare-genetic/article_25b2070a-fe8c-5c93-b860-6b3ee0ff2dd4.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lived</a> to 40.
The Biden administration and his reelection campaign have placed abortion front and center as the election cycle heats up.
In January, the Biden campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-campaign-attempts-to-tie-trump-to-state-abortion-bans-in-new-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debuted</a> a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrtvE4bSwKY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new ad</a> titled “Forced,” which features another Texas woman who obtained an abortion out of state.
Dr. Austin Dennard, a Dallas OBGYN and mother of three, left Texas to obtain an abortion for her unborn baby with anencephaly, a condition where a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull.
Dennard is one of several women suing Texas to clarify the “medical emergency” exception to the state’s abortion ban.
In her court testimony, Dennard acknowledged that her pregnancy had not made her “critically ill.”
“I was not hemorrhaging, I was not septic. I was pregnant with a lethal anomaly, and I did not believe that I would be able to receive an abortion in my state at that time for the sole purpose of my lethal anomaly,” Dennard said.

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Pro-Life Group Aims To Bust ‘Abortion Myths’ Ahead Of Biden’s SOTU Featuring Woman Who Left Texas For Abortion

Pro-Life Group Aims To Bust 'Abortion Myths' Ahead Of Biden's SOTU Featuring Woman Who Left Texas For Abortion

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A British trust that supervises numerous hospitals issued a letter claiming that milk produced by biological men (with the aid of ingested hormones) is as good for babies as breast milk from their mothers.
Dr. Rachael James, the medical director of the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (USHT)  trust — which was the first British trust to use terms such as “chestfeeding” and “birthing parent”¸ wrote a letter last August to an organization called Children of Transitioners in which she claimed that “the term human milk (which she called the ‘ideal food for infants’) is meant to be neutral and is not gender-biased.”
She also stated, “Medications are sometimes used to induce lactation, similar to the natural hormones which encourage lactation to develop when the baby is newly born although occasionally some people are able to induce lactation without hormonal treatment. The evidence which is available demon­strates that the milk is compar­able to that produced following the birth of a baby.” She added that “staff further clarify that the term human milk is meant to be neutral and is not gender-biased.”
The USHT cited a 2022 study which measured “infant milk testosterone concentrations” and discovered “no observable infant side effects” on babies using milk from biological men, lactating transgender women. That study was reportedly rejected by experts, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13095965/Row-hospitals-say-hormone-filled-milk-trans-women-born-male-just-good-baby-real-thing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In 2021, USHT created Great Britain’s “first clinical and language guidelines supporting trans and non-binary birthing people” in which it declared that asserted that men who had taken hormones produced milk “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby.”
Lottie Moore, the head of quality and identity at Policy Exchange, which discovered the letter, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/transgender-womens-milk-just-as-good-for-for-babies-says-nhs-trust-m02tnvr55" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: “This letter is unbalanced and naive in its assertion that the secretions produced by a male on hormones can nourish an infant in the way a mother’s breast milk can. A child’s welfare must always take precedence over identity politics and contested belief systems that are not evidence-based. The NHS should not be indulging in this nonsense.”
A spokesman for USHT stated, “We stand by the facts of the letter and the cited evidence supporting them.”
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This is what this madness has wrought folks. Being “pc”/polite/saying nothing when you know it’s wrong has gotten us to abusing babies. Pls pls pls find your voice. This is sick. It’s mental illness &#8211; and we are enabling it. <a href="https://t.co/voY6BiKaBR">https://t.co/voY6BiKaBR</a>
&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1759362631607959755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘This Is Sick’: British Hospitals Say ‘Milk’ From Men Equal To Mothers’ Breast Milk For Babies

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A professor who is listed on the NYU <a href="https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/amh20.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> as “part-time faculty” and whose LinkedIn profile says he serves as an adjunct professor at The New School of Public Engagement told students that reports of Hamas raping women and beheading babies in the October 7 massacre were false.
Amin Husain spoke at a December 5 “teach-in” organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at The New School.
The Free Press obtained a video of Husain’s presentation from <a href="https://twitter.com/_SAFECAMPUS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">S.A.F.E. Campus</a>; reporter Francesca Block <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/nyu-prof-tells-students-hamas-atrocities-untrueu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Husain stated, “Don’t take what the media says. &#8230; It’s really important. . . . Because these kind of questions try to put you on the defensive. They try to say. . . ‘Oh my God, you’re supporting rapists and people that behead babies,’ both of which, you know, whatever, we know it’s not true.”
Husain also stated of New York, “We live in a Zionist city. &#8230; No, let’s be real about this, let’s be f***ing real.”
On November 17, Husain spoke at the school, where he <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxRKX-t3P9/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a> of Israel, “This land isn’t for the Jews.” He added, “When you take [to] the streets, when you break windows, when you care for each other, when money doesn’t mean what they want it to mean, when you figure out how to set different values, when you know how to say to a Zionist ‘no,’ when you take a position even though you know it’ll make your life a little bit more difficult, trust me, it’s worth it. It’s worth it, and it scares the s*** out of them.”
Canary Mission, which reports on anti-Semitic people and groups, states in its <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Amin_Husain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bio</a> of Husain:
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Amin Husain has <a href="https://youtu.be/Fjz9aZcSBAI?t=5670" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized</a> multiple violent New York City disruptions, <a href="https://youtu.be/ytA66I24hnM?t=939" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoted</a> hatred of America and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165358759695366&amp;set=pb.814995365.-2207520000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police</a> and <a href="https://www.strikemoma.org/freepalestineletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incited</a> hatred against pro-Israel supporters with <a href="https://canarymission.org/organization/Within_Our_Lifetime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Within Our Lifetime (WOL)</a>, an anti-Israel activist group in New York. Husain has <a href="https://youtu.be/n1lhMCj4ESw?t=105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> to have participated in the first intifada and personally <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thecomingintifada/posts/1679247949011377?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDQgT8usX6vwNFofWILwQv5KssGcu_GLsGMXaLCw6QhjB09emyfCG4i1kaCPKThxFSHixgYxcZvvPi9aSfpZBqqtkvxowST3y-eHIYxtLj4eKAE-otAca8aM_uvLTrE4rwvLurlg--6AL-N8EZLWu8sYbZPzrwkYua197L_OAPcoGzsLelKFd44DB1Umd5LujlnijwkN2SsQucbP2cGQ1eJh16F7BuV78sbgqHyZwVJduMiL43R6uVr4vxx824mSErU0WoZZUFT_LF8yF51r4YgVr8W6WZ7rvni6jBOPTlQxcQAKVgxlWgMkrIQ2sATLqX5xVwhUiygiWoIHRRF3wUZWXJX&amp;__tn__=-R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visited</a> a leader of the terror group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Jihad_Movement_in_Palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)</a>. He has also <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BRYaAcrAZX2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> support for the <a href="https://canarymission.org/organization/Popular_Front_For_The_Liberation_Of_Palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)</a> terror group and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BU4WzQMgDFN/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">glorified</a> its leaders, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10165413067250366&amp;set=pb.814995365.-2207520000..&amp;type=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoted</a> other terrorists and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/amin.husain.14/posts/10161580280015366" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spread</a> hatred of Israel.
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Husain confirmed the accuracy of Canary Mission’s bio, telling the students, “Everything they cite. . . is true.”
A spokesperson for The New School told The Free Press that Husain&#8217;s affiliation with the school ended in 2019, but he had been repeatedly invited to speak by the campus’ SJP.
“The New School chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is entitled to use university space, as are all New School student organizations, for educational activities, and has the right to invite speakers representing various points of views to the university,” the spokesperson stated. “Individuals from The New School who choose to organize or attend these events are in no way speaking for, or representing, the university.”
Husain is a co-founder of Decolonize This Place, an organization that urged protests in 2020 and caused over $100,000 in damages, including vandalized subway stations, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/15/nyu-professor-founded-anarchist-group-that-attacked-subways-last-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>.

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NYU Professor Tells Students That Hamas Did Not Rape Women, Behead Babies

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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/big-bang">Big Bang Theory</a>” actress Kaley Cuoco recalled a recent experience she had on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/air-travel">flight</a>, saying a fellow passenger made a disparaging remark about her 9-month-old daughter, Matilda.
The 38-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">TV star</a> discussed what happened during a Monday appearance on the late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” per <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/01/09/parents/kaley-cuoco-almost-strangled-woman-who-judged-her-parenting-on-daughters-first-flight/">Page Six</a>.
“It was our first flight ever with this baby, which is terrifying. We were very terrified,” Cuoco told Kimmel. 
“I thought, ‘What do we do? We have to bring her sound machine on the plane. It’s the only thing she can go to sleep to,” the actress continued, noting how Matilda was very fussy before she eventually fell asleep. “So she’s crying. It was hard,” she said. “She finally falls asleep and the sound machine is on and we were finally like [sighs].”
Shortly after the baby fell asleep, Cuoco said a flight attendant came over and said another passenger had requested that she turn off the sound machine. 
“I’m sitting there like, ‘Oh, my God,&#8217;” she said. “I can feel Tom be like, ‘Hey, ask the passenger if she wants to hold our screaming child when we turn it [off],&#8217;” she continued, describing her boyfriend Tom Pelphrey’s reaction. “The ice went into his veins,” she added.
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Cuoco said she eventually figured out who complained. 
“It was the woman right in front of us [who complained],” the actress said. Next, she described what happened when Matilda woke up in a better mood. “The lady turns around and goes, ‘Oh, so your daughter does know how to smile.&#8217;”
This revelation made the “Kimmel” audience collectively gasp. 
“It was in that moment where I understood why women end up on ‘Dateline,&#8217;” Cuoco went on. “I could have strangled [her]…I could’ve thrown that woman off the plane.”
The Emmy Award nominee said that babies should be more accepted in society. 
“You see all these things on social media where people are really, truly getting mad at these babies,” Cuoco said. “Like, justice for babies!” she added. “This is ridiculous … leave them alone!”

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‘Big Bang Theory’ Actress Says She ‘Could Have Strangled’ Passenger On Recent Flight For Comment About Her Baby

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Six weeks after its article vilified the Israeli government with false claims that it had forced Palestinian mothers who received authorization to leave Gaza for humanitarian reasons with their babies to return to Gaza to reapply after their permits expired, the Washington Post finally issued a correction, but still managed to find a way to malign the Israeli government by introducing new unnamed sources with new unverified claims.
The Post’s “editor’s note” <a href="https://washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/17/israel-gaza-war-babies-families/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affixed</a> to the original article, which had been titled, “Israel’s war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers,” stated:
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An earlier version of this article about Palestinian mothers in #Gaza who have been separated from their newborns mischaracterized some aspects of Israeli rules for permits that allowed some Palestinian women, before Oct. 7, to travel from Gaza to give birth at hospitals in the West Bank and Israel. The article incorrectly said that all Palestinian mothers who received authorization to leave Gaza for humanitarian reasons had to return to Gaza to reapply after their permits expired. In fact, it was not always necessary for mothers to return to Gaza. 
The article has been updated to specify that it was hospital officials who told two Palestinian mothers that they needed to return to Gaza to apply for new permits.  The article also reported an incorrect birth weight for one newborn, Mahmoud; he weighed 3½ pounds, not 7 pounds. The article has been corrected.  
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“In addition, The Post neglected to seek comment from Israeli officials for this article,” the Post admitted.
Yet, as Robert Satloff, the Executive Director of The Washington Institute, pointed out, “The Post is holding firm on refusing to identify the hospitals or name any of the nurses, doctors or administrators cited makes little sense. Instead, the Post is doubling down on the unverified claim that the unnamed interviewees have a legitimate fear of ‘retaliation’ by Israel.”
Satloff noted that on December 6, NBC News cited the hospital and a doctor by name in its own version of this story on Dec 6.   He added that the Post added the following paragraph to the original story in which they used unnamed sources making new unverified claims:
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But patient advocates and hospital staff who help women with the process say these on-the-ground extensions can be difficult to obtain and are not consistently granted. One of the mothers in this story said she was not aware that she could apply for an extension, and left without doing so. 
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Success! Well, at least partial success.
Late this afternoon, <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> finally published an “editor’s note” &amp; an updated version of the flawed Nov 17 article on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinian</a> mothers separated from their newborn infants because of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a>&#8211;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hamas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hamas</a> war.…
&mdash; Robert Satloff (@robsatloff) <a href="https://twitter.com/robsatloff/status/1740565550185562441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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6 Weeks Later, WaPo Issues Correction To Anti-Israel Piece. Then They Add More Anti-Israel Narrative.

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New state abortion bans are resulting in tens of thousands more babies being born per year, a new analysis of the data shows.
About 32,000 more babies were born per year due to state abortion bans enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned, <a href="https://docs.iza.org/dp16608.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to an analysis published Friday by the Institute of Labor Economics. Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, was overturned in June last year.
Births have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> in every state that has an abortion ban, the analysis found, using birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stretching from 2005 to June.
Between a fifth and a fourth of women living in the 14 states with abortion bans who otherwise may have had an abortion did not get one, data from the first six months of this year shows.
An average of 2.3% more babies were born in states with abortion bans compared to states without bans, the analysis shows.
Nationwide however, the number of legal abortions has remained about the same, even increased slightly, since the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision last year. This is likely due to new clinics opening in states without bans and more ways to order abortion pills online.
The groups that saw the biggest increase in births were women in their 20s, black women, and Hispanic women. These groups tend to be less able to afford to travel out of state for an abortion, the researchers said, and they are more likely to seek abortions.
Driving distances to abortion clinics had a significant effect — the greater the increase in the driving distance, the bigger the spike in the birth rate.
Texas saw a 5.1% spike compared to states that had similar birth trends but did not pass an abortion ban. The average increase in driving distance to the nearest abortion clinic was 453 miles after Texas passed its ban.
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Mississippi had a 4.4% increase in births, and the driving distance there increased by an average of 240 miles.
Abortion pills ordered online also appeared to drive down the birth rate in certain states with bans. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana had big increases in orders for abortion pills from Aid Access, a major overseas abortion pill provider. Researchers had expected the birth rate to jump higher than it did in those states.
“The insinuation of a lot of coverage of such data points is that it’s a bad thing for there to be more children welcomed in states with better laws than in states that fast-track abortion,” Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times.
“It’s a triumph that pro-life policies result in lives saved,” she said.

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State Abortion Bans Result In 32,000 More Babies Born A Year, Research Shows

State Abortion Bans Caused 32,000 More Babies Born A Year, Research Shows

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The U.S. death rate for babies rose 3% last year, the first jump in two decades.
In 2022, there were 5.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, according to provisional data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That&#8217;s 3% higher than the 5.44 infant deaths per 1,000 live births the country saw in 2021.
Last year marks the first time the infant mortality rate has jumped since 2002, when the death rate rose to 7 deaths per 1,000 live births, up from 6.8 deaths in 2001.
Some groups of infants saw significant death rate increases, including baby boys, white infants, Native American infants, and premature babies born at 37 weeks or earlier. Native American mothers saw their infant mortality rate <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/infant-mortality-rate-increases-3-2022-rising-1st/story?id=104505952" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rise</a> from 7.46 infant deaths per 1,000 to 9.06 deaths in 2022. White mothers saw the death rate rise from 4.36 per 1,000 to 9.06 deaths.
Maternal complications and bacterial sepsis, two of the leading causes of infant deaths, also increased last year.
Dr. Eric Eichenwald, a Philadelphia-based neonatologist, called the new data “disturbing.”
An increase in RSV and flu infections last fall among babies that led to emergency room visits across the country “could potentially account for some of it,” Eichenwald <a href="https://apnews.com/article/infant-deaths-us-cdc-mortality-c808796da0415b6ecc0629938421e1b5#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press. However, he said experts can only speculate so far about why the death rate for babies suddenly increased after years of declining.
The infant mortality rate, which measures how many babies die before they reach their first birthday, has otherwise been declining in recent years. The neonatal mortality rate, which measures how many infants die less than 28 days after birth, also rose 3% last year. The neonatal mortality rate jumped to 3.58 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022, up from 3.49 deaths in 2021.
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The postneonatal mortality rate, which looks at infant deaths between 28 days old and one year old, jumped even higher, 4% up to 2.02 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 1.95 deaths  in 2021.
Overall, more than 20,500 babies died in the U.S. last year. That&#8217;s more than 610 infant deaths than during the previous year.
Georgia, Iowa, Missouri and Texas saw significant increases in their infant mortality rates last year. Only one state, Nevada, saw a decrease. Georgia saw 116 more infant deaths last year than in 2021. Texas had 251 more infant deaths.
“It would appear that some of the states could be having a larger impact on the [national] rate,” said Danielle Ely, the CDC report’s lead author.
Meanwhile, the overall death rate in the U.S. fell 5% last year. The falling death rate has been mostly attributed to the country recovering from the pandemic.
Maternal deaths also fell last year across the nation.

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On Christmas Eve in 1984, two young boys found the body of a newborn baby girl in a secluded park in Mendham Township, New Jersey.
She was wrapped in a towel and had been placed in a plastic bag, so young that her umbilical cord was still attached. Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll said Thursday that a medical examiner had determined that the baby had been alive when she was abandoned, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-mary-case-woman-charged-abandoning-newborn-new-jersey-park-1984/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CBS News</a>.
The newborn was named “Baby Mary” by Rev. Michael Drury, who baptized the baby before she was interred. For nearly 40 years, police have been unable to identify her or her mother, despite pursuing leads. On Thursday, Carroll and other Morris County officials <a href="https://www.morriscountynj.gov/Departments/Prosecutor/Prosecutor-Press-Releases/Charge-Filed-in-1984-Cold-Case-Homicide-of-%E2%80%9CBaby-Mary%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that Baby Mary’s mother had been identified, but since she was 17 at the time the baby was abandoned, they have not released her name.
Using new technology, law enforcement efforts across three states, and old-fashioned police work, investigators were able to identify the baby’s mother and father. They soon discovered that Baby Mary’s biological father had died in the nearly four decades since she was abandoned, and police found no evidence to suggest he knew anything about the pregnancy or the abandonment and death of his daughter.
A juvenile delinquency complaint was filed against Baby Mary’s biological mother on April 24, but authorities are just announcing it now. She was charged with one count of manslaughter, which would have been second-degree manslaughter if she had been an adult at the time of the baby’s death.
“This arrest is the culmination of decades of effort, across multiple generations of law enforcement. It is a tribute to the tenacity and dedication of the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office, our Major Crimes Unit, the Morris County Sheriff’s Office, and the Mendham Township Police Department,” Carroll said on Thursday. “The death and abandonment of this baby girl is a tragic loss and even after nearly 40 years, remains just as heartbreaking. Justice may not take the form the public has imagined all these years, but we believe with this juvenile delinquency complaint, justice is being served for Baby Mary. Nothing can right this terrible wrong. Thanks to the men and women who worked so diligently on this case, we hope the community is given a sense of closure.”
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Sheriff James Gannon added that young parents should know that “there is help available” through the Safe Haven Infant Protection Act, which didn’t exist in 1984.
“The legislation allows parents or their representatives to anonymously surrender a newborn baby at any hospital emergency room, police station, fire station, ambulance, first aid, or rescue squads that are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If the baby appears to be 30 days old or less, and free of any abuse or neglect, the baby will be accepted with no questions asked,” he said.

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A Newborn Baby’s Body Was Found In A New Jersey Park In 1984. Her Mother Was Just Identified And Charged.

A Newborn Baby's Body Was Found In A New Jersey Park In 1984. Her Mother Was Just Identified And Charged.

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A British nurse convicted last week of murdering seven infants between 2015 and 2016 and attempting to murder six more has been sentenced to life in prison.
The 33-year-old nurse, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, became the United Kingdom’s worst serial killer of babies in recent times after she was convicted in 14 out of the 22 counts she faced, People Magazine <a href="https://people.com/crime/lucy-letby-nurse-found-guilty-murdering-infants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. On Monday, she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The nurse didn’t appear for sentencing, which has led some to call for changes in law to ensure that a guilty person is present for their sentencing hearing, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/21/uk/lucy-letby-nurse-sentence-intl-gbr/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. During sentencing, Justice James Goss explained that the nurse deserved life in prison because her crimes were “a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children.”
He spoke as if the nurse were in the courtroom and ordered his remarks and all victim impact statements to be sent to the convicted serial killer.
“There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism. During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors,” he said, according to CNN.
Following sentencing, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak denounced the nurse for not appearing at her hearing.
“I think it’s cowardly that people who commit such horrendous crimes do not face their victims and hear first hand the impact that their crimes have had on them and their families and loved ones,” he said. “We are looking and have been at changing the law to make sure that that happens and that’s something that we’ll bring forward in due course.”
The nurse’s trial took ten months to complete at Manchester Crown Court, with the 11-person jury failing to reach verdicts on six additional counts of attempted murder. She was also found not guilty on two counts of attempted murder.
The woman, who worked as a nurse in the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, would inject air into babies’ blood and stomachs, overfeed them with milk, physically assault them, and poison them with insulin, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/uk/lucy-letby-nurse-guilty-gbr-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Seven babies died as a result of the nurse’s acts, leading to seven guilty convictions for murder. She was also found guilty on seven counts of attempted murder relating to six additional babies, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in <a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/lucy-letby-found-guilty-baby-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> on Friday.
During a police investigation, authorities found handwritten notes in the nurse’s home, including one that read, “I am evil I did this.”
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During the trial, which started last October, jurors were told that doctors at the hospital where the nurse worked began noticing an unusually high number of babies dying or unexpectedly collapsing. After finding no medical explanation, the hospital called the police.
“[The nurse] sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby’s existing vulnerability,” Pascale Jones, the senior crown prosecutor, said in a statement. “In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk, fluids – or medication like insulin – would become lethal. She perverted her learning and weaponized her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.”
At trial, prosecutors introduced evidence showing that the babies were perfectly healthy before being attacked. For those who recovered from the nurse’s attempts to kill them, their recovery was too rapid for the harm to have been natural. Investigators also found falsified medical documents from the nurse attempting to hide her involvement in the deaths, including altering time reports to make it appear as though they occurred when she was not there.
Text messages and social media activity also coincided with the attacks, some of which seemed to live blog the events. This activity, according to CPS, showed the nurse had an “intrusive curiosity about the parents of babies she had harmed.”

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A British nurse has been convicted of murdering seven infants between 2015 and 2016 – and attempting to murder six more.
The 33-year-old nurse, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, became the United Kingdom’s worst serial killer of babies in recent times after she was convicted in 14 out of the 22 counts she faced, People Magazine <a href="https://people.com/crime/lucy-letby-nurse-found-guilty-murdering-infants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The trial took 10 months to complete at Manchester Crown Court, with the 11-person jury failing to reach verdicts on six additional counts of attempted murder. She was also found not guilty on two counts of attempted murder.
The woman, who worked as a nurse in the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, would inject air into babies’ blood and stomachs, overfeed them with milk, physically assault them, and poison them with insulin, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/uk/lucy-letby-nurse-guilty-gbr-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Seven babies died as a result of the nurse&#8217;s acts, leading to seven guilty convictions for murder. She was also found guilty on seven counts of attempted murder relating to six additional babies, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in <a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/lucy-letby-found-guilty-baby-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> on Friday.
During a police investigation, authorities found handwritten notes in the nurse&#8217;s home, including one that read, “I am evil I did this.”
During the trial, which started last October, jurors were told that doctors at the hospital where the nurse worked began noticing an unusually high number of babies dying or unexpectedly collapsing. After finding no medical explanation, the hospital called the police.
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“[The nurse] sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby’s existing vulnerability,” Pascale Jones, the senior crown prosecutor, said in a statement. “In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk, fluids &#8211; or medication like insulin &#8211; would become lethal. She perverted her learning and weaponized her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.”
At trial, prosecutors introduced evidence showing that prior to being attacked, the babies were perfectly healthy, and for those who recovered from the nurse&#8217;s attempts to kill them, their recovery was too rapid for the harm to have been natural. Investigators also found falsified medical documents from the nurse attempting to hide her involvement in the deaths, including change time reports to make it appear as though they occurred when she was not there.
Text messages and social media activity also coincided with the attacks, some of which seemed to live blog the events. This activity, according to CPS, showed the nurse had an “intrusive curiosity about the parents of babies she had harmed.”
“To the families of the victims &#8211; I hope your unimaginable suffering is eased in some way by the verdicts. Our thoughts remain with you,&#8221; Chief Crow Prosecutor Jonathan Storer said in a statement. “Our prosecution team and police investigators have my respect and gratitude. These convictions could not have happened without their dedication to securing justice.”

Nurse Convicted Of Killing Infants

She Was A Nurse Supposed To Protect Infants. She Was Just Convicted Of Killing 7 Babies.

British Nurse Convicted Of Killing 7 Babies

A viral photo of a man identifying as a woman nursing a baby prompted swimmer-turned-activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines">Riley Gaines</a> to declare that such behavior was “normalizing pedophilia.”
The photo was posted by Mika Minio-Paluello, a former adviser to Great Britain’s Labour Party, who said he &#8220;only breastfed my child for a few weeks&#8221; before stopping due to cancer treatments. Gaines, a former All-American at University of Kentucky who has become outspoken about radical gender theory and protecting women and girls in sports, called it &#8220;sick.&#8221;
“For the longest time I refrained from posting on TikTok,” Gaines wrote. “But after what I saw today on Twitter, I will be blasting my opinions and my views on all of my social media platforms because this is sick and I think a true testament of where, as Americans, we are today.”
Gaines posted other photos of Minio-Paluello that show him using nipple clamps to satisfy a twisted sexual fetish.
“In the following photos you will see the same man who was breastfeeding the child actively using nipple clamps to fulfill his sexual fetish,&#8221; wrote Gaines, citing an Instagram caption in which he wondered how hard the viewer could tug on the clamps.
“So I guess what I’m wondering is, how can any sane human being see this man posing with this child, obviously sucking on his nipple, now seeing what he engages in privately, and not see this baby as an erotic prop for this man with a sick fetish?” Gaines asked.
“It is sexual abuse of a child, bottom line and all of this to say that in America we are normalizing pedophilia,” she charged. “Let me repeat that: we are normalizing pedophilia. We are normalizing this behavior in the guise of human rights but sexual abuse is not a human right for anyone. I hate to even be spreading this message but I think people need to see it.
“It’s up to us to stand up against evil which is exactly what this is,” she declared. “This is a battle of moral versus evil. The smirk on this man’s face says it all.”
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Riley Gaines is calling out normalizing pedophilia. Well done <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a> 
And the GUY is an advisor to the UK government!!! Imagine that. <a href="https://t.co/bndC2l0UF7">pic.twitter.com/bndC2l0UF7</a>
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