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Abortion Bans Come With a Heavy Economic Cost
A conversation with economist Caitlin Myers on the lasting, harmful consequences of allowing the government to control the most important economic decision most women will ever make: Motherhood.
Read the data, not the signs
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The US Supreme Court’s decision last month to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, ending the constitutional right to abortion, will set women back by decades. Economic gaps will widen: Those who can afford to travel will continue to find the terminations they need in order to live healthy lives, study and work — but the most vulnerable will not.
We know this, because multiple studies have told us so, over decades. And yet still the data and its implications are in dispute.