https://www.economist.com/united-st...ful-maternal-mortality-rate-looks-set-to-rise
We will already have the worst maternal mortality rate in the industrial world. Where a typical country has three mortality out of 100,000 live births, while the USA has a mortality rate of 17 (more than five times higher). States like Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, are becoming illegal, already had mortality rates above 30. They will get much worse.
There are about 3.6 million births per year in the USA. If the mortality rate goes up by 10, there will be 3,600 more women that die. If you think abortion is murder, that might not be a lot of deaths. There might be about 600,000 abortions per year, and anti-abortion laws in some states might reduce the number of abortions by 10%. That would be 60,000 fetuses (or "unborn babies" as the Republicans call them). Maybe 3,600 women dying is worth saving 60,000...
But we should not lie. This is going to kill women.
The Conservative Southern States are quickly becoming even more third world. Somehow Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia are emerging out of the morass.
Most people with the funds to leave have done so. I just sold my last bid of Alabama.
