Well, let’s see, you’ve closed planned parenthood and outlawed abortion, so more women have to carry sicker babies to term. You’ve gutted Medicaid and lower-cost health insurance, so women can’t afford to get themselves or their babies treated when they become sick. You’ve gutted reproductive services, women’s health services, and prenatal services, so even women carrying healthy babies who can afford healthcare will be generally less healthy. The pandemic reduced the overall number of qualified medical staff in all fields, making access to care even harder to get, and you’ve made that even harder by offering some of the lowest wages in the nation and enacting laws that are hostile, to medical providers, to women, to parents and families, and to public health. Your state is, and has been for decades, the literal definition of social murder.
So now you’re worried and have declared a “public health emergency”, great. What exact, explicit, concrete steps are you going to take to reverse that trend?
What’s that I hear? crickets.
Immediate executive order to get troops on the street. Should fix it.
Instructions unclear. Sending troops to Chicago
Troops show up in the Virgin Islands and outnumber the locals. “Fuckin whoops”
Please don’t joke about sending troops when you know that could be their solution to the “birth rate crisis”.
All I have are jokes and a small, supportive community.
Mississippi. The state mentioned in the article is Mississippi.
Its also how their life expectancy is calculated. 10mississippi…9mississippi…8mississippi…
Thank God for Miss-… Wait, not like that.
Because I have a dark sense of humor.
Leopards are eating veal.
Bit in all seriousness, while this is absolutely horrible it’s just honestly expected.
Hey, if you die in infancy, at least you’re spared having to live in Mississippi
Mississippi has long been the lowest bar that other shitty states point to and say “At least we aren’t Mississippi!”
Can confirm. Occasionally we also refer to Alabama but Mississippi is the go to.
Just a reminder that Mississippi didn’t ratify the 13th amendment (yes, the slavery one) until 2013.
And didn’t get rid of the racist flag until 4 years ago.
Probably should send in the National Guard then, right?
The solution is of course, to deport more brown people and to persecute the gays even harder.
Probably need to fire whoever’s reporting infant mortality rates. Boom, problem solved
It was that damn sasquatch
If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis!
Yes, the states with the highest infant mortality, are also the states that have outlawed abortions
Mississippi health officials declared a public health emergency last week in response to the state’s rising infant mortality rate.
Doctor Dan Edney said the best way to reduce infant mortality is by improving maternal health. “That means better access to prenatal and postpartum care, stronger community support and more resources for moms and babies,” Edney wrote.
Mississippi: “Not like that.”
Sorry, best we can do is…uhhh legislate trans hate
Dude, the post birth care is massive. Babies are freaking hard to keep alive for a little while, if you don’t have the resources or the village to help, it’s tough.
Oh no! They’re facing the consequences of their actions!
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Damn, even the next generation doesn’t want to live in Mississippi
Dying is preferable to being born in Mississippi.
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As a leftist with conservative parents, maybe this opinion could be reconsidered.
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You’re the type of sour cunt that causes others to fail
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My parents are conservative and I have the exact opposite political beliefs. People aren’t born conservative, they are taught it. Wishing death on infants is just fucked up no matter how you look at it.
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You know who else celebrates the death of children that they don’t like? Israel. Don’t you fucking dare pass judgement on children without understanding the consequences of that mentality. Be mad at the people that got them killed, not the victim.
I really am finding hard to shed a tear for the same people that want to stone homosexuals, want to murder Liberals, and are driving medical professionals out of the state causing this issue because of their fucked up policies.
Do the infants have that mentality? Sure, their parents are fucked up people, but do the infants deserve to die for the actions of their parents? Do I deserve to die because my dad voted for Trump? I was an infant once, too.
I’m not saying you have to shed a tear for the people that caused this. But not shedding a tear for innocent children that are the victims is a slippery slope you do not want to go down, my friend.
Would they shed a tear for your kids?
Yeah, they would. Not the politicians or hardcore MAGA people online, but the people in my community that overwhelmingly voted for trump definitely would. The majority of them are radicalized and indoctrinated, not evil. My parents voted for Trump but I don’t think they’d celebrate my death just because of what I voted for.
You are lost, my friend. I hope you find your way that doesn’t involve being happy when children die. If your fight against radicalization turns you into a radical yourself the only thing you’ll accomplish is moving the target.
The data also show that the Black infant mortality rate in Mississippi was more than twice as high as the mortality rate for white infants in 2024.
Might not be conservatives there, m8
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Fuck them tho, right?
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It’s what Jesus wanted.
Conservative Jesus not Canon Jesus.
I really hate upvoting such a tragedy but this really needs more attention
