This came up in an unrelated discussion of how technology has improved our lives, about how infant mortality rates have dropped due to technological advancements.
Yet, if I understand the math correctly... hasn't abortion drastically set this progress back?
A related topic is the MSM was arguing that states with abortion bans have higher infant mortality rates... yet, if you factor abortion in, don't states with legal abortion have much higher infant mortality rates?
According to this site, 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2023: https://apnews.com/article/how-many-babies-are-born-us-25d99f438645908e5ed6ae29d3914b89
According to this site, "researchers estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023": https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/19/1238293143/abortion-data-how-many-us-2023
So if the total babies that would have been born was 4.6 million, and a million did not survive 1 year of age (definition of infant mortality rate), that's gonna be between 20% and 25% infant mortality rate. History has a 50% mortality rate so that is a gain... the mainstream mortality rate number today seems to be a few percents (not adding in abortion numbers).
Has anyone made this point before and is this math correct?
Oh yes, exactly correct. I completely misspoke in my last comment. I meant to say how could less abortion increase infant mortality.