"Pro-life"Our local hospital closed down years ago. And a whole bunch of hospitals in the state are just as fucked:
• In Alabama, a state that just passed a total ban on abortion, more than a quarter of children live in poverty; 30 percent of those children are under the age of five.
• Only half of Alabama’s 67 counties have an obstetrician.
• Infant care for a single child in Alabama takes up an average of 11 percent of a family’s income. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, child care costs are unaffordable when they exceed 7 percent of a family’s income.
•Single mothers in Alabama spend 29 percent of their income on childcare costs.
• Child care costs for families with two children—an infant and a four year old—cost 28 percent more than the average rent in the state.
• About 88 percent of Alabama’s rural hospitals are operating “in the red.”
• Alabama has the second highest infant mortality rate in the country.
• More children are living in poverty in Alabama now than they were almost 20 years ago, and the state has the fifth highest child poverty rate in the country
• Alabama’s child food insecurity rate is 22.5 percent. The national average is 17.5 percent.
• There are no maternity leave or family leave laws in the state of Alabama.
These "lawmakers" have no intent, not a single one, to address any of this.