Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Abortion bans hurt poor and Black women most
, which relied on a mammoth storehouse of data from California — “the universe of California birth records covering years 2007—2016, linked to inpatient data with information on infant and maternal hospitalizations and infant death certificate records” and a slew of other government records. Two of the findings are critical for policymakers to grasp.
, about which I have previously written. The Turnaway study looked at about 1,100 women over a five-year period to examine how health, emotional, social and economic outcomes differed between women who obtained abortions and women who sought but were denied abortion due to state gestation limits on abortion .
We found large and statistically significant differences in the socioeconomic trajectories of women who were denied wanted abortions compared with women who received abortions — with women denied abortions facing more economic hardships — even after we accounted for baseline differences.
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