The first data on births since Roe v. Wade was overturned shows how much abortion bans have had their intended effect: Births increased in every state with a ban, an analysis of the data shows.
Until now, studies have shown that many women in states with bans have ended their pregnancies anyway, by traveling to other states or ordering pills online.
What they have been unable to show is how many women have not done so, and carried their pregnancies to term.
“The importance of our results is when you take away access, it can affect fertility,” said Daniel Dench, an economist at Georgia Tech and an author of the paper with Mayra Pineda-Torres of Georgia Tech and Caitlin Myers of Middlebury College.
“When you make it harder, women can’t always get out of states to obtain abortion.”
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Institute of Labor, Georgia Tech, Torres of Georgia Tech, Middlebury College