A new study finds that more than 30,000 babies have been born that would have otherwise been aborted since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade.
The Institute of Labor Economics conducted a study that looked at the effects of the high court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.Â
They found that 32,000 babies were born in states that have enacted some form of abortion restrictions.
“Our primary analysis indicates that in the first six months of 2023, births rose by an average of 2.3 percent in states enforcing total abortion bans compared to a control group of states where abortion rights remained protected, amounting to approximately 32,000 additional annual births resulting from abortion bans,” the study revealed.
The researchers noted that the high court decision sparked the “most profound transformation of the landscape of U.S. abortion access in 50 years,” based on preliminary birth data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“Within hours of the decision, abortions were halted in 10 states, either in response to a ban triggered by the decision or to the expected enforcement of a pre-Roe abortion ban that was still on the books. Over the weeks and months
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