Which means that, to a large extent, we won't know how the court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is actually the health and wellbeing of women and children.
We could maybe look at all pregnancy-related emergency department visits, or look at changes in miscarriage and abortion numbers before and after.
But even in the days of Roe, some states — including California — refused to provide abortion data to the CDC.
Abortion data, like abortions themselves, have largely been subjected to a political debate over rights, at the expense of actual knowledge.
They need numbers, they need facts, they need stories."