Among the most ominous outcomes is that social scientists project the number of women who die from complications in childbirth could increase by double digits in the states banning abortion. In a new paper, Amanda Jean Stevenson, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and two co-authors projected that maternal mortality would increase by 14% in the 26 states expected eventually to ban or severely restrict abortion.
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Linda Goler Blount, president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, said in an interview their research forecasts that the number of Black women who die from childbirth could rise by fully 33% with Roe overturned. Poverty rates could increase as much as 20%, the group projects. “Lives will be lost, just from the death in and around pregnancy, but also those deaths of despair when you get another generation of people into poverty,” Goler Blount says.