Rising infant mortality puzzle solved: not enough abortion
Latest statistics reveal that infant mortality rate ‘has stalled due to an increase in babies born prematurely’; figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in 2019 in England and Wales, 2,390 infants died under the age of one year, with 907 deaths between ages one and 15, marking ‘the lowest number of infant deaths since records began in 1980’, but ONS researchers found ‘that the increase in the proportion of live births under 24 weeks has contributed to an increase in the neonatal mortality rate’ –