Posted on 11/23/2023 8:59:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
About 32,000 additional babies are being born per year following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade last year, according to an analysis.
“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,” three researchers from the Georgia Insitute of Technology and Middlebury College wrote in a report published by the Institute of Labor Economics in Germany on Friday.
The researchers came to their conclusions based on monthly birth data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) starting from January 2005 to June.
The report noted significant changes in abortion access following the Supreme Court ruling.
“As of November 1, 2023, 14 states are enforcing bans on abortion in nearly all circumstances, and 23 percent of U.S. 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 at present,” the researchers wrote.
“This represents the most profound transformation of the landscape of U.S. abortion access in 50 years,” they added.
The longer the driving distances to abortion clinics, the greater the increase in birth rates, according to the report.
For instance, Texas, one of the 14 states to enforce near-total bans on the procedure, saw its fertility rates increase by 5.1 percent as its driving distance to the nearest abortion clinic increased by an average of 453 miles.
Mississippi saw a 4.4 percent spike in birth rates, as the average increase in driving distance there was 240 miles after the state imposed its ban.
Meanwhile, researchers noted the availability of online abortion pills was a factor in some states with bans. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana had increases in births that were “less than forecasted” based on driving distances, as they were also the states with the “greatest reported increase to Aid Access for medications to self-manage abortion following Dobbs.”
In the 14 states, the report estimated that about one-fifth to one-fourth of people seeking abortions did not receive one due to abortion bans.
The report also showed a sizable increase in birth rates for Hispanic women (4.7 percent) and women in their early 20s (3.3 percent).
On Nov. 22, separate data released by the CDC showed that the number of abortions reported to the agency increased 5 percent from 2020 to 2021. The CDC data do not include numbers from California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey.
In response to the CDC numbers, the Washington-based conservative advocacy group Family Research Council (FRC) issued a statement saying unborn children need urgent protection.
“From 2020–2021, the number of abortions increased by five percent. This means that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision giving elected officials the power to protect unborn children from abortion came at the time when unborn children’s lives were most at risk. The time to protect the unborn is now!” FRC’s Director of the Center for Human Dignity, Mary Szoch, said in a statement.
“Additionally, this data shows that 56 percent of abortions occurred using the dangerous chemical abortion drug, mifepristone. While every abortion is tragic because it ends the life of an unborn child, abortions using the abortion drug, mifepristone, are especially horrific because of the great risk they pose to the mother’s health, and sometimes her life, as well,” Ms. Szoch added.
She continued, “The CDC data shows that six women and 625,978 unborn babies lost their lives from legal and induced abortion. This number is undoubtedly an underreporting. It is devastating, as each of these women and each of these babies have incalculable dignity and worth.”
Amen.
At almost 1,000,000 abortions per year, a 32,000 reduction from what it would be potentially isn’t much, but a step in the right direction.
I’m sure the abortion industry simply sees it like this: 32,000 x $800 = $25,600,000 in lost potential revenue.
This debate is really just about money. US Congress is for sale and if you have enough money backing you, you can disembowel a journalist and US resident in an allied NATO country and we won’t do much, as is the case with Kashoggi: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45812399
If you have enough importance (meaning money) you can drive tanks over pro-democracy students on Tienanmen square in 1989 and that same year US Congress will vote for most favored trade status and US policy makers will support WTO membership for China. And that held true for Democrat and Republican administrations! Only Trump rocked the boat.
I’m not trying to be negative, but the simple reality is that if you want our government to change, you need to put money behind it by taking legal action (target everyone that has a finger in the business), doing effective PR campaigns and trying to engage the arts and entertainment, going after top level bureaucrats (try to get them ousted), lobbying, funding political campaigns and those parties that support our cause. Candle vigils and prayers don’t matter in this country where God and money are nearly synonymous in the political arena.
In the minds of the criminals the rule us that’s 32,000 more turd worlders that could have been imported.
500k more women dem voters. Worth it? Maybe.
Not for long. There will be referendums in many states next year.
Abortion cost the GOP everything. It put off non fundie women, and that’s a fact.
That said, we should support each state legalizing abortion if that's what they want to do.
It should be a state issue, and it is now. But the cost of that was losing 90% of the under 40 female (or so) and that’s just how it is.
Holy rollers think it was worth it, I do not.
How many of these mothers will be nurturing and raising these infants in a loving tenderly character-affirmative way ?(rhetorically offered)
The GOP needs to get rid of the holy roller robinson types like they did with the young earth creationists.
We lost the under 40 female vote, what’s going to make up for it? The old white men are dying off. The Mexican Catholics might have a chance, if they don’t have to worry about religion much.
There is no abortion ban. they just put limits on the number of weeks you can have one. And who cares if it cost the Gop anything. You all ever heard of standing on your principles. Evidently not. and you can cut out with your insult of: holly rollers. you are not a conservative or a human being.
That’s the attitude that cost us.. ‘who cares if we lose’ over it. Well, we lost a lot. I don’t think that was worth it, but some may.
Folks need to REMEMBER, that these new changes were voted in by the citizens of those STATES. And not one of them voted to BAN the killing of one’s own offspring. They just put limits on the NUMBER OF WEEK you can kill it. If some people had their way, they’d let them kill it up until 9 months they are that evil. And remember, it’s not the GOPs or the Democrats Governments. it’s WE THE PEOPLE’S GOVERNMENT. stop letting them get away with this crap.
so winning is more important than a baby’s life. that’s sick and you are not a conservative or a human being.
It cost us. That’s all. It cost us power and everything.
Fanatics love to die on hills though.
somebody has to step up for the unborn on this forum. the venal comments i’m seeing are making me sick to my stomach, i’ll take the other side of the what’s more important: the GOP winning elections or the unborn living. (yeah, i know the basic claim in their argument itself is fallacious, i.e., the GOP isn’t necessarily losing any election because it’s pro-life, they’ve been losing elections since long before Dobbs, but that’s the way these feckless, ends-justify-immoral-means republican acolytes are presenting their specious argument, so i’ll counter it directly on their terms.)
evil is lessened in this world and God’s will done every time a baby is not aborted. Christians have been leading this battle against Roe and convenience murder in the womb for many decades and the fight goes on now in the states.
it is exactly analogous to the centuries long fight Christians led against involuntary servitude in Britain and America. and if, as Lincoln said, two drops of soldier’s blood must be shed for every drop of blood drawn by the bondman’s lash, then so be it.
the true Church of God as the Body of Christ will be never back off because the preservation and protection of innocent life is non-negotiable, and non-political for a true Christian. i’d rather be cursed by the GOP than cursed by God Himself. the GOP will be damned if it supports abortion. If God be for us, who will stand against. history has ultimately always approved God’s Righteous Will over man’s temporal and morally bankrupt desires.
and always, always, thank you Clarence Thomas for spearheading the decades long effort to save the unborn in the USSC. they always say Dobbs, but it was really you, kind Sir, who got us Dobbs. thank God for you and i pray that your service there will continue for many more blessed years.
You must be about 12. that you are more worried about costing a political party anything who has done nothing for us but stab us in the back. You are a low information voter. I told you, there is no abortion ban. GO DO SOME RESEARCH. Or go ask a holy roller maybe they can edumacate you.
Heh, I know it’s up to the statez. I’m just saying, and you should agree, that moving it from RvW to ztates cost the young female vote. There is no arguing that.
oh right, like they are going to change their minds now. That doesn’t mean the other citizens should give up their morals, standards and principles just so some political party that is not on our side anyway to win. Just get everyone you know out to vote for President Trump so we can get this Biden regime and his comrades out of OUR LIVES. And then we can work on cleaning out the good ole boys club of the GOP,e who keeps stabbing us in the back and selling us out.
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