Trump and RFK Are Presiding Over a Massacre of the Innocents

In August 2025, the State Department of Health Mississippi (MSDH) announced the growth of infant mortality in the state emergency. According to msdh“The 2024 data shows that the overall infant mortality rate increased to 9.7 deaths per 1000 living birth, which is the highest in more than a decade. In Mississippi, 3.527 babies died up to 1 year since 2014.”

Currently Mississippi has the highest infant mortality rate in the US, and double the average level of countries consisting of economic cooperation and development. MSDH said he had announced an emergency in health as “acknowledged the urgency of this crisis and could not wait to take action.” Emergency health allows MSDH to mobilize additional resources and attract more partners’ attention and cooperation. This is a cry in the wilderness, telling the truth about the fate of children not only in Mississippi, but also in many other states across the country with high infant mortality, such as Arkansas, Alabama, Alaska, South Carolina, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Ohio.

But health care experts in Mississippi and other places face a heavy fight because state and federal policy makes its work almost impossible. Eg expansion Medicaid – this A powerful tool in improving infant mortalityBut Governor Mississippi Tate Reeves refused to expand Medicaidcovering 60 percent of birth in the state. Even with the expansion of postpartum assistance within the Medicaid in Mississippi, many poor women will remain insured between pregnancy.

In addition, the reduction of Medicaid in a large beautiful Trump bill will also go away Up to 40,000 more Mississipans without covering. And Trump administration is everything but only destroyed System Monitoring Pregnancy (PRAMS) by reducing staff At the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Reproductive Health Department. The orders are vital for the collection of data on the health of the mother and infants before, during and after pregnancy. It also forms policies and interventions for states across the country, including Mississippi, which was to suspend its own efforts to collect data in the midst of emergency in the field of health care.

Despite the fact that GOP loves to consider itself a family, the data on maternal and infant mortality in the United States tell about another fairy tale. The policy adopted by the republican legislative bodies of the state strongly contributes to the poor motherhood and babies’ health The results in these jurisdictions.

That’s for sure it is very long. But Trump’s war with public health makes everything much worse, much faster. Many healthcare experience attack RFK vaccination and his associates, as evidenced by their refusal to recommend vaccination for pregnant women and babies this summer. Last week by hand, RFK Jr.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) sowed misinformation and doubts in the aggregate, paracyques, rubella and Varicella (Gurtpox), and was ready to intervene on childhood vaccination for hepatitis a lot of medical societies to break acip Once again.

But no one was prepared for the double part of the press conference this week in the White House, where President Trump has expressed false claims against vaccines and acetinophen, which causes autism. As an outstanding bioethics Arthur Kaplan said:

The announcement of autism was the saddest reflection of the lack of evidence, the rumors, recycled old myths, the lousy parade, the open lies and the dangerous recommendations of anyone in the powers, saying that he knows what I witnessed, when I witnessed. And that’s something says, because I’m 76 years old. Among other things, I watched Trump Burga about taking bleach during Covid.

Vaccines do not cause autism. While The right to acetaminophen is harderThe most convincing data testify to the association. In particular, while some studies have shown an association, genetics or other incomprehensible factors may shift these results. To solve this potential perk, great Swedish study close to 2.5 million children The control of siblings is used to address the role of the genetics and health of the parents, and found that the connection between prenatal use of acethamin and autism has disappeared.

Thus, the statements of President Trump and the actions he will tell to interfere with the use of acetinophen during pregnancy at best, at best, and at worst are dangerous. Why? As “Unnutusted fever, especially in the first three months of pregnancy, increases the risk of miscarriage, congenital defects and preterm birth” and non -steroidal inflammatory drugs (eg, aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen) during pregnancy in pregnancy Well -documented risks to develop fetus. Thus, acethaminophen is the safest option for pregnant women in the context of fever and pain as Medical societies were fast to note in their corrections statements about the president’s rash.

While preliminary GoP policies threaten the health of the mother and child, RFK Jr. and President Trump will certainly be released from Herod Herod in his contribution to the infant mortality in the US. These two people-do their attacks on vaccination, now their attacks on a key drug used during pregnancy, to dismantle key programs that help us understand the risks and complications of pregnancy in America to programs that serve as the expected mothers, as well as their health and health.