In the six months after the fall of Roe v. Wade, researchers found, the number of legal abortions fell by an average of 5,377 per month, totaling 32,260 fewer abortions.
Even states where abortion bans were only in effect for a short period of time saw a large decrease, underlining the vast chilling effect that even the suggestion of a ban can have on abortion access.for seven days, last September, when a court shot down Republicans’ total abortion ban. But the researchers found that that ban had lasting effects: While people only had 940 abortions in the state in April, there were only 550 abortions in December.
Other states where abortion bans were in place on and off throughout the study period saw a similar decrease in abortions compared with places where the ban was in place the whole time. Georgia’s near-total six week abortion ban didn’t go into effect immediately after– and yet, the state saw one of the largest decreases in abortions at 10,930, only second to Texas’s 15,540.
And states like Arizona with putatively lenient bans that allow abortions up to the 15th week – a period still extremely early in a pregnancy – similarly saw their abortion rates fall far below pre-States adjacent to others with abortion bans, meanwhile, saw an increase in abortions, showing the continued need for access. The states with the highest increases were abortion “islands”, which are each adjacent to several states that have passed total abortion bans.
Perhaps one of the reasons that there was such a sweeping decrease in abortions even where it wasn’t fully illegal during the study period is that many abortion bans were
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