Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, at least 30,000 babies have been born that may have been aborted, according to a new study published this month.
Those 32,000 babies were born in states that enacted some form of abortion restriction, according to a study conducted by the Labor Economics Institute that looked at the impact of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Women’s Health Organization Dobbs v. Jackson, which reinstated the issue. abortion to the states.
“Our primary analysis shows that in the first six months of 2023, births increased by an average of 2.3 percent in states that enforced total abortion bans compared to a control group of states where abortion rights remained protected, amounting to approximately 32,000 additional annual births as a result of the ban abortion,” according to the study.
The three researchers who conducted the study said the shift represented “the most profound transformation of the US abortion access landscape in 50 years,” based on early birth data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
People attend the 50th annual March for Life rally in front of the US Supreme Court.Getty Images
“As of November 1, 2023, 14 states enforce bans on abortion in nearly all circumstances, and 23 percent of US women of reproductive age have experienced an increase in driving distance to the nearest abortion facility, from an average of 43 miles one-way before Dobbs to 330 miles currently ,” the study found.
But Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told the New York Times that the research shows “the success that pro-life policies result in lives being saved.”
“The implication of many such data point coverages is that it’s a bad thing that there are more children being welcomed in states with better laws than in states that speed up abortion,” he said.
At least 30,000 additional births occurred after Roe v. Wade reversed, according to new study.Getty Images
Instead, Alison Gemmill, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told CNN that the new numbers show “an assault on reproductive autonomy.”
“We don’t always detect signals in these population aggregates because there’s so much variation when you group everyone together,” he said. “The fact that there is a signal at the population level means that something is really happening. It’s pretty strong evidence,” because fertility rates, or the number of births per woman of reproductive age, usually don’t change dramatically.
The study’s authors argue that the evidence shows “decreased abortion access poses risks to the health and financial stability of this vulnerable population.”
“In 2020, approximately 1 in 5 pregnancies will end in abortion,” the study said. “At the time of their abortion, 75 percent of patients were low-income, 59 percent had previously given birth, and 55 percent reported a recent disruptive life event such as falling behind on rent or losing a job.”
The study’s authors argue that the evidence shows “decreased abortion access poses risks to the health and financial stability of this vulnerable population.” Getty Images
The findings provide a detailed picture of the implications of last year’s landmark Supreme Court decision.
The impact on abortion was “particularly large” for Hispanic women and women aged 20 to 24 with results showing that birth rates increased by an average of 4.7% and 3.3% respectively. In addition, based on the geography of abortion restrictions that make interstate travel more expensive, the percentages increased 4.4% in Mississippi and 5.1% in Texas.
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