Since Roe v. was overturned. Wade in June 2022, around 32,000 babies have been born who would otherwise have been aborted, according to one study. new study.
The New York Times reported that by comparing birth statistics in states before and after the Supreme Court banned abortions, researchers found that the law caused about 32,000 births annually. The data is based only on the first six months of 2023 and was in line with initial expectations.
However, several studies have shown that many women living in states where abortion is prohibited still have abortions. According to the report, these women will travel to states where abortion is still legal or purchase pills online.
The Times noted that the only data that cannot be known with certainty is how many women have not had abortions during that same period.
The analysis, conducted by the Institute of Labor Economics, said that in the first six months of the year, between a quarter and a fifth of women living in states with bans who would otherwise have sought an abortion did not get one. .
“Our primary analysis indicates that in the first six months of 2023, births increased by an average of 2.3 percent in states that implemented complete abortion bans compared to a control group of states where abortion rights remained. protected, representing approximately 32,000 additional births annually as a result of abortion bans,” the study says.
Fox News Digital reported that the three researchers who conducted the study said the change represented the “most profound transformation of the landscape of abortion access in the United States in 50 years,” based on birth data from the US Centers for Disease Control.
The student continued: “As of November 1, 2023, 14 states are imposing abortion bans in almost all circumstances, and 23 percent of American 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 today.”
Alison Gemmill, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, shared with cnn that the new figures should sound the alarm about “reproductive harmony.”
“We don’t always detect signals in these population aggregates because there is a lot of variation when you group everyone together,” Gemmill said.
“The fact that there is a signal at the population level means that something is really happening.”
Additionally, the three researchers who conducted the study said there is evidence to support the position that “decreased access to abortion represents a risk to the health and financial stability of this vulnerable population.”
The study stated: “In 2020, approximately 1 in 5 pregnancies ended in abortion.”
“At the time they seek abortions, 75 percent of patients are low-income, 59 percent have given birth previously, and 55 percent report a recent disruptive event in their life, such as falling behind on a pregnancy payment. rent or lose your job.
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