This week, JAMA Network Open published a study that analyzed the impact of recently enacted pro-life laws on maternal mortality rates. Overall, the results should please pro-lifers. The study found that maternal mortality rates are falling in both states with strong pro-life laws and states with permissive abortion policies. Since enacting its Heartbeat Law, Texas saw its maternal mortality rate drop by 2.4 percent. Other states with strong pro-life laws saw their maternal mortality rate drop by 3.3 percent.
The study was comprehensive and methodologically rigorous. The authors calculated quarterly maternal mortality rates for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for the years between 2018 and 2023. Overall, they considered over 22 million births and over 12,000 pregnancy related deaths. When trends were held constant, states with strong pro-life laws on average actually experienced slightly faster declines in maternal mortality than states with permissive abortion policies.
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