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Post-Roe America’s National Shame: 65,000 Forced Pregnancies
In less than two years, tens of thousands of women have become pregnant from rape in states that have total bans on abortion.
A truth that should be self-evident.
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It’s now been about a year and a half since the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion. Over that time, new data has been gradually filling in the picture of what access to reproductive health care looks like in much of the US. And the image forming is increasingly grim.
Consider a gut-punch of a research letter published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine, in which researchers estimate that nearly 65,000 pregnancies have resulted from rape in the 14 states that imposed total abortion bans after Roe v. Wade was overturned.