Study shows an abortion ban may lead to a 21% increase in pregnancy-related deaths
- Written by Amanda Jean Stevenson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
References
- ^ CC BY-NC-ND (creativecommons.org)
- ^ new Texas law (www.texastribune.org)
- ^ follow suit (www.nbcnews.com)
- ^ negative consequences for their health and well-being (www.ansirh.org)
- ^ researcher who measures the effects of contraception and abortion policy on people’s lives (scholar.google.com)
- ^ currently available as a preprint (doi.org)
- ^ killed hundreds of women per year (www.washingtonpost.com)
- ^ medication abortion (www.kff.org)
- ^ Plan C (www.plancpills.org)
- ^ manage their own abortions with pills (www.plannedparenthood.org)
- ^ 0.44 deaths per 100,000 procedures from 2013 to 2017 (dx.doi.org)
- ^ 20.1 deaths per 100,000 live births occurred in 2019 (www.cdc.gov)
- ^ many reasons (www.cdc.gov)
- ^ abortion bans sweeping the U.S. (news.trust.org)
- ^ my study (doi.org)
- ^ increase by 21% overall (osf.io)
- ^ Black maternal health crisis (www.hsph.harvard.edu)
- ^ three times higher (www.cdc.gov)
- ^ structural racism (doi.org)
- ^ biases in health care provision (doi.org)
- ^ people having abortions (doi.org)
- ^ less advantaged than people having births (doi.org)
- ^ maternal health crisis (doi.org)
- ^ access safe medication abortion (www.nbcnews.com)
- ^ travel across state lines (www.npr.org)
Authors: Amanda Jean Stevenson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder