More parents are refusing vitamin K injections for their newborn babies....

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2OwoLN9gEPs

 

Dr. Joseph Mercola Reverses Opposition to Vitamin K Shot — ProPublica

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies

 

The real reason the right is obsessed with babies #trump #news #politics

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hA4TSekA7ls

President Trump believed that babies get a vat of vaccines. #trump

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RH9rT8C_XLg

 

Parents Increasingly Reject Vitamin K Shots for Newborns, Hospitals Report — ProPublica

An Essential Shot: Vitamin K shots, which help the blood to clot, are one of three key interventions for newborns, along with an antibiotic eye ointment and the hepatitis B vaccine. 

Increasing Rejections: The government doesn’t track vitamin K rejections, but hospitals have seen a rise in parents opting out of the shots for their newborns, often driven by unfounded fears. 

Troubling Data: Hundreds of children die each year from spontaneous bleeding in the brain, a common result of vitamin K deficiency, suggesting that many related deaths go unreported...

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns 

 

Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds

A KCL study has found that exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy delayed speech development…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/29/babies-exposed-to-air-pollution-during-pregnancy-take-longer-to-learn-to-speak-research-finds

 

PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk, study finds

When pregnant women drink water that comes from wells downstream of sites contaminated with PFAS, known as "forever chemicals," the risks to their babies' health substantially increase, a new study found. These risks include the chance of low birth weight, preterm birth and infant mortality. 

Even more troubling, our team of economic researchers and hydrologists found that PFAS exposure increases the likelihood of extremely low-weight and extremely preterm births, which are strongly associated with lifelong health challenges…

https://theconversation.com/pfas-in-pregnant-womens-drinking-water-puts-their-babies-at-higher-risk-study-finds-270051 

 

Why it is important for babies to get medical interventions at birth.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uYzOHW_66Dw

 

A machine could keep a baby alive outside the womb

Artificial wombs promise to change that trajectory, saving more babies and sparing more parents from grief. But growing a child outside the body also cuts to the core of how people imagine pregnancy and parenthood. 

"This kind of device would create a new stage of human development, something we've never had to describe or regulate before," says Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, a medical law scholar at Durham University. 

In this way, artificial wombs tug at a taut tightrope of questions that scientists, bioethicists and legal experts are scrambling to cross before human trials begin: how will this technology affect the ways we intervene in preserving life, or how we define life itself?…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05/baby-alive-outside-womb

 

Pro-Family Talk, Anti-Family Policies — Pick a Side.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZfxX2o4fVVk

 

‘We wanna produce babies’: Trump tries to pitch himself as IVF champion after Roe fall

Ex-president sits with ex-Democrat Tulsi Gabbard at town hall in Wisconsin to discuss reproductive rights…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/trump-ivf-tulsi-gabbard-wisconsin-rally

2 in 5 US babies benefit from the WIC nutrition program

We found that food-insecure children who received benefits from WIC and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, from 1984 to 2019, at anytime from birth to age 17, were four times more likely to report improved food security years later, as young adults, as compared with those who did not receive SNAP or WIC benefits as kids...

https://theconversation.com/2-in-5-us-babies-benefit-from-the-wic-nutrition-program-214676

Nearly two years after Texas' six-week abortion ban, more babies are dying | CNN

Experts say that abortion bans in states like Texas lead to increased risk for both babies and mothers…

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/health/texas-abortion-ban-infant-mortality-invs/index.html

Black infants die at record rates. Kansas birth workers try to keep them alive : NPR

Nationally, infant mortality declined to a record low in 2020, but in Kansas, it rose 19% — and for Black babies, it surged 58%. Black infant mortality in Kansas is now three and a half times the rate of white infant mortality. 

 That disparity exists to a lesser extent across the U.S., where the mortality rate for Black babies is more than double that for white babies. 

 Experts say why such stark disparities exist lie in racial differences in the causes of infant deaths. White and Hispanic infant mortality is most commonly caused by birth defects. Black infant deaths more frequently stem from complications related to being born too early and being underweight…

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1135835982/too-many-black-babies-are-dying-birth-workers-in-kansas-fight-to-keep-them-alive

Republican Candidate’s Bonkers Campaign Sign Has Everyone Puzzled | HuffPost Latest News

A Republican candidate seeking the party's nomination for governor in Georgia held an event with a "Jesus Guns Babies" sign on her bus as she insisted that the state is a Christian theocracy...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kandiss-taylor-campaign-sign_n_628b230ae4b0edd2d017b753

Dr. Rachel Fleishman: Roe opponents should know more about babies born at the limits of viability

…Only about 1 in 5 babies born at 22 weeks and undergoing intensive treatment survives the first 12 hours of life…

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/roe-opponents-babies-born-limits-viability-rcna27557

'Everywhere Babies,' a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned - The Washington Post

…"I think there's one illustration they don't like, where it's two men. But how do they see this, that any time a man puts his arm on another man's shoulder, it means they're gay? It doesn't seem obvious to me. I don't know who they are! It seems odd to me that this is banned, because it's a preschool book, a family book. You read it to kids when they're 2. But maybe they think we're trying to indoctrinate kids from the cradle on. I don't know. I mean, you can't figure out this mind-set…"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2022/04/22/banned-books-everywhere-babies/

The Way of the Mister: In Defense of Killing Babies

Is the story of Noah's Flood "One of the most moral stories ever told" as Dennis Prager claims? I think not!
https://youtu.be/3lmi4YJo1tU

Revealed: US citizen newborns sent to Mexico under Trump-era border ban | US immigration | The Guardian

"It has become really clear that the right to life protection of the children is about protecting white, Christian children … not about brown children born to immigrant mothers," Ramos says.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/05/us-citizen-newborns-mexico-migrant-women-border-ban

How the Catholic Church Hid Away Hundreds of Irish Children | Times Docu...

Ireland wanted to forget, but the dead don't always stay buried. One woman made it her mission to unearth the truth.

https://youtu.be/XoulaehrD_I