Yes, the states with the highest infant mortality, are also the states that have outlawed abortions
Well, let’s see, you’ve closed planned parenthood and outlawed abortion, so more women have to carry sicker babies to term. You’ve gutted Medicaid and lower-cost health insurance, so women can’t afford to get themselves or their babies treated when they become sick. You’ve gutted reproductive services, women’s health services, and prenatal services, so even women carrying healthy babies who can afford healthcare will be generally less healthy. The pandemic reduced the overall number of qualified medical staff in all fields, making access to care even harder to get, and you’ve made that even harder by offering some of the lowest wages in the nation and enacting laws that are hostile, to medical providers, to women, to parents and families, and to public health. Your state is, and has been for decades, the literal definition of social murder.
So now you’re worried and have declared a “public health emergency”, great. What exact, explicit, concrete steps are you going to take to reverse that trend?
What’s that I hear? crickets.
Immediate executive order to get troops on the street. Should fix it.
Instructions unclear. Sending troops to Chicago
Troops show up in the Virgin Islands and outnumber the locals. “Fuckin whoops”
They’re gonna pray super hard. Or at least they’ll tell people they are.
More abortion restrictions so they can keep making babies faster than they die.
Mississippi. The state mentioned in the article is Mississippi.
Its also how their life expectancy is calculated. 10mississippi…9mississippi…8mississippi…
Thank God for Miss-… Wait, not like that.
My condolences to 38% of the population.
As a side note, future generations will look back and be like… how did you knowingly vote for someone so clearly evil that his official portrait looks like this
It’s like voting for Lex Luthor. Which, yes, he also became president… and was somehow a better president than Trump.
Because I have a dark sense of humor.
Leopards are eating veal.
Bit in all seriousness, while this is absolutely horrible it’s just honestly expected.
Hey, if you die in infancy, at least you’re spared having to live in Mississippi
Mississippi has long been the lowest bar that other shitty states point to and say “At least we aren’t Mississippi!”
Just a reminder that Mississippi didn’t ratify the 13th amendment (yes, the slavery one) until 2013.
And didn’t get rid of the racist flag until 4 years ago.
Can confirm. Occasionally we also refer to Alabama but Mississippi is the go to.
I had the unfortunate experience of picking up the term ‘human veal’ from the SCP Wiki.
I approve of this dark joke.
One step closer to gilliad
Mississippi health officials declared a public health emergency last week in response to the state’s rising infant mortality rate.
Doctor Dan Edney said the best way to reduce infant mortality is by improving maternal health. “That means better access to prenatal and postpartum care, stronger community support and more resources for moms and babies,” Edney wrote.
Mississippi: “Not like that.”
Sorry, best we can do is…uhhh legislate trans hate
Dude, the post birth care is massive. Babies are freaking hard to keep alive for a little while, if you don’t have the resources or the village to help, it’s tough.
Republicans: What? Not a chance!
Probably should send in the National Guard then, right?
Probably need to fire whoever’s reporting infant mortality rates. Boom, problem solved
The solution is of course, to deport more brown people and to persecute the gays even harder.
Maybe RFK could ban more modern medicines too. Who knows what’s in that stuff? It’s not natural.
It was that damn sasquatch
If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis!
Oh no! They’re facing the consequences of their actions!
It’s what Jesus wanted.
Conservative Jesus not Canon Jesus.
Cause you stopped freaking vaccinating people.
Dying is preferable to being born in Mississippi.
Damn, even the next generation doesn’t want to live in Mississippi
I really hate upvoting such a tragedy but this really needs more attention
