Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law, study finds

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This is the first analysis of live births since the law, which banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, went into effect in September 2021. Texas AbortionIsHealthcare AbortionSavesLives WomensHealth txlege

for abortion-inducing medication from AidAccess, an online provider; and clinics in nearby states saw a flood of Texans.

“Almost 70% of our patients are parents already,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, the CEO of abortion provider Whole Woman’s Health, told The Texas Tribune in February 2022. “They’re managing work and kids [and] school during a pandemic. They can’t travel a few days to a different state. It just basically means abortion … is off the table.”

“If, previously, people were able to leave the state to go to a neighboring state to seek an abortion, that’s no longer an option,” Gemmill said. “So it’s possible that we could be seeing even greater increases post-Dobbs.”

 

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