Study: States with Restrictive Abortion Bans See 2.3 Percent Hike in Births After Roe Overturned

The Center Square (Bethany Blankley), The Star News Network

In the first half of 2023, roughly 32,000 babies were born in states that implemented

abortion restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June, a 2.3% increase, according to a new analysis. In the first six months of 2023, “births rose by an average of 2.3 percent in states enforcing total abortion bans,” leading to an estimated 32,000 births that might have otherwise been aborted, according to a new analysis published by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics initiated by the Deutsche Post Foundation.