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Fortunately, liberals have another political weapon at their disposal--infants. The Rust decision will likely raise infant mortality rates among low-income populations. And these "babies" are actual infants under anyone's definition, not the potential lives that fall under the right-to-lifers' semantic extension of the word...
PRESS REPORTS have already flooded the airwaves about dozens of health clinics that are sure to close as a result of the Rust decision. Such clinics frequently provide comprehensive prenatal care services to their clients in addition to abortion counseling. By depriving poor women of such services, Rust will increase the shamefully high infant mortality rates in urban and rural areas. Even if displaced women are able to obtain prenatal care under Medicaid from a private physician, the care they would receive would be less comprehensive and effective, according to a study by the Office of Technology Assessment...
...Rust will also contribute to infant mortality by obstructing women's access to abortion services. The predominantly poor women served by clinics are also disproportionately unmarried and young--demographic groups at extremely high risk for having their infants...
Moreover, poorer women are more likely to have health problems that can result in a complicated birth. Although Rust provides for abortion counseling under extreme health conditions, the American Medical Association recently argued that the list is far too restrictive. Heart disease, diabetes and conditions of the nervous system, for example, all have been proven to complicate pregnancies but are not cause for abortion counseling under Rust...
Because of Rust, more unmarried, young and sick women will give birth, and, predictably, more babies will die. A review of the most respected medical literature by Barbara Starfield concluded that reduced access to family planning is the second most important contributor to infant death in the first month. (Before Roe v. Wade, it was the first...