For the first time in nearly 20 years, the U.S. has experienced an alarming uptick in infant mortality rates, according to the CDC.
  • blindsight@beehaw.org
    16·
    a year ago

    Infant mortality rate is one of the key statistics that measures general health in a population. Anyone paying attention won’t be surprised that nutrition and health are in decline in the US.

    The scary part might be that this will potentially drive more people to conservatism due to the Golden Age fallacy, encouraging more to believe that the solution to society’s problems is regression.

    I wish I could be more hopeful about this, but it’s overwhelming. I’m worried that other countries are backsliding into social regression, too.

    Two Canadian provinces are putting policies in place to out trans kids to their parents and we have a right-wing radical group called “Million March 4 Children” that’s pushing QAnon conspiracies that the world is run by pedophiles trying to scale up child sexual abuse through the education system.

    I’m getting off-topic, sorry. Except it’s not really, is it? It’s all interconnected, and those holding the levers of power don’t care about infant mortality rates.

    • Sonori@beehaw.org
      3·
      a year ago

      I mean, pedofiles are trying to scale up sex abuse though the education system, at least here in the US. Abstance only sex “education’s” primary effect beyond increasing teen pregnancy is to make it harder for children to recognize and report sexual assault.

      I wonder why a party who’s membership is commonly convicted of having sex with minors and in which one of the most influential alt-right leaders is a convicted rapist (Trump), might heavily support expanding it while labeling anything else as “grooming” children.

    • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      a year ago

      Banning abortions likely also increases the infant mortality rate as women are forced to take non-viable pregnancy to term.