About 32,000 More Babies Being Born Annually In U.S. Since Roe V. Wade Overturned, New Analysis Suggests
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Topline Approximately 32,000 additional children are being born annually since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion, a new analysis suggested. An exam room in the Trust Women South Wind Women’s Center where abortions were being provided is … [+] pictured in Oklahoma City, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) AP2016 Key Facts The report suggested the number of births rose 2.3% on average in states where abortion was banned compared to states where it stayed legal (however, that excludes Texas, because it had managed to effectively ban abortion prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and thus the researchers felt it obscured the number—with Texas, the increase was 1.3%). Women aged 20-24 were most affected, with births rising 3.3%, according to the report. For comparison, among women aged 25-29 and 30-44, births increased 2.8% and 2%, respectively, according to the study. Among Hispanic women, births rose 4.7%, while white and Black women saw births rise 3% and 3.8%, respectively. The report was conducted by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Middlebury College and the German Institute of Labor Economics, and examined data from the first six months of 2023. Key Background The Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022 in its landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. Immediately after, 13 states with so-called trigger bans quickly outlawed abortion. Since then, conservative lawmakers in 21 states have moved to ban or restrict abortion. However, in every election in which the issue was put in front of voters since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, they have decided to keep abortion legal or block measures that would make it easier for the government to ban it, including in Ohio, Kansas and Kentucky. Tangent A…
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