A new analysis from Johns Hopkins found that Texas saw close to 10,000 additional live births over a nine-month period after implementing its abortion ban at around six weeks of pregnancy.
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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