A new analysis of live births found almost 10,000 additional babies were born in Texas in a nine-month period after Senate Bill 8 went into effect.
in June last year, Texas has enacted some of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws, banning all abortions unless a mother's life is at risk.Bill 8, researchers created a statistical model of what Texas would have looked like without the law.Montinique Monroe/Getty Images
The number of observed births in actual Texas during this period was 297,088—indicating that an additional 9,799 babies were born during that period.
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