ILIA CALDERÓN: A new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Vital Statistics revealed that, from 2021 to 2022, the infant mortality rate increased by 3%, the first increase- or, the largest increase in two decades.
According to experts, causes could be the lack of maternity care, limiting parents’ abilities to care for the child; and also the lack of reproductive rights, which forces millions of women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term.