The overturn of Roe v. Wade with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision has paved the way for legislation across the country to restrict reproductive health care. A pair of new studies shows the fallout of restrictive reproductive healthcare policies: More babies were born in states that enacted abortion bans between 2021 and 2023, and infant mortality … Read more
Numerous other groups that have studied the problem say forcing or even encouraging marriage will not make poverty disappear. And a recent study by a team at the University of South Carolina found that when state laws make it harder for pregnant women to get divorced, they’re more likely to be killed by their partners. … Read more
“We all understand — if we’re parents, or know anybody who’s a parent, or are paying any attention to parents — the ways in which having children impacts the economic lives of families,” says Caitlin Myers, an economist at Middlebury College. “For women in particular, it’s the single biggest economic decision most of them will … Read more
“States with the most severe abortion restrictions have the least public infrastructure to support families,” said Dr. Nigel Madden, a maternal-fetal medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who led the study published Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health. Read more at NBC News
