{"id":258693,"date":"2021-12-11T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258693"},"modified":"2021-12-10T20:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T02:51:04","slug":"msnbc-preborn-abortion-maternal-infant-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/msnbc-preborn-abortion-maternal-infant-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC seems to think killing preborn babies can fix high maternal and infant mortality rates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Americans await the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> regarding Mississippi’s law restricting abortion to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy, pro-abortion news outlets have wasted no time in attacking pro-lifers.<\/p>\n

On MSNBC’s The Reid Out<\/a> with Joy Reid, Reid claimed that women will die if the Mississippi law is allowed to stand. “Bodily harm and death will certainly increase if safe and legal abortions go away,” she said. But in the more than three months that the Texas Heartbeat Act has been in effect, there has not been one instance reported of a woman dying due to a lack of access to abortion. The truth is that intentionally killing a preborn child is never medically necessary<\/em>\u00a0to save the health or life of the mother.<\/p>\n

Reid’s guest on the show was opinion writer Jennifer Rubin (author of an article claiming Republicans have an “indifference to human life”), who claimed that in the state of Mississippi, women are 75% more likely to die from pregnancy than from a “pre-viability abortion.” However, the CDC does not collect data from Mississippi on the state’s maternal mortality rate. And according to the state itself<\/a>, out of 26 pregnancy-associated deaths in the state in 2016, 11 were related to pregnancy, 12 were unrelated to pregnancy such as car accidents, and three were undetermined.<\/p>\n

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