Hundreds more babies in US died than expected in months after Roe was overturned

Study shows roughly 247 more infant deaths per month than expected in 18 months after supreme court’s decision

In the 18 months after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, leading more than a dozen states to implement near-total abortion bans, hundreds more babies died than expected, new research has found.

The research, which was conducted by researchers from the Ohio State University and published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, compared data on infant mortality from the months before Roe’s downfall to data from afterward. Overall infant mortality, the researchers found, rose by 7%.