01/25/2024
Just FYI, a Republican president will make it a federal offense to get an abortion and make it impossible to access one in the US. Doesn't matter what state you're in
Posted • Texas saw an estimated 26,313 r**e-related pregnancies during the 16 months after the state outlawed all abortions, with no exceptions for survivors of r**e or in**st, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
That's the highest figure among the 14 states with total abortion bans, with Texas having the largest population, according to the study.
“Survivors who need abortion care should not have their reproductive autonomy further undermined by state policy," said one the authors, Dr. Kari White of the Texas-based Resound Research for Reproductive Health.
The authors noted that while some pregnant r**e survivors who need abortion care may be able to travel out of state or manage the pregnancy at home with abortion pills, the bans leave many survivors without a viable alternative.
Following the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the researchers estimated there were 519,981 r**es associated with 64,565 pregnancies during the four to 18 months after states implemented total abortion bans. Of those pregnancies, an estimated 5,586 occurred in states with exceptions for r**e and 58,979 in states with no exception.
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