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

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.
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29 Nov 2023
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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, a domestic correspondent for The New York Times.

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Margo, just a few days after Roe vs. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, you came on The Daily to describe the new legal landscape of abortion in the US. What a new state-by-state post-ro map of access and restriction would gonna look like as a result of that court decision. And the question back then was, what was gonna be the impact of that new map on the number of abortions in the US? But of course, we didn't have any data back then. It's true, it was really an open question. If all of these states banned abortion, what was gonna happen to the women who used to have abortions in those states? Would they travel to another state and get an abortion anyway? Would they order pills from overseas through kind of not totally legal methods and have illegal abortions? Would they have less sex or use more birth control and become less likely to be pregnant? Or would they end up carrying pregnancies to term that they would have terminated in the past and there would be more babies? And because it takes a long time for a baby to just state and be born,

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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.