Ending Roe Was Supposed to Reduce Abortions. It Didn’t.

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From the moment that Roe v. Wade was overturned, the question was just how much the change would reduce abortions across the United States. Now, more than a year later, the numbers are in.

Margot Sanger-Katz, who writes about health care for The Upshot, explains why the results are not what anyone had expected.

Guest: Margot Sanger-Katz (https://www.nytimes.com/by/margot-sanger-katz?smid=pc-thedaily), a domestic correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading:


The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html?smid=pc-thedaily) who would have gotten abortions in states that banned it carried their pregnancies to term.
The first full-year census of U.S. abortion providers showed significant increases in abortion (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/upshot/abortion-numbers-dobbs.html?smid=pc-thedaily) in states where it’s legal.
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