It has been 18 months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Given that it takes only nine months to gestate a baby, that’s more than enough time to decipher what effect the decision has had on the American birth rate. Whichever your side in the abortion debate, it’s a mixed bag.
National Review’s Ari Blaff reported on a new study by economists at the Institute of Labor Economics who found that, in each state in which abortion was banned, there were significantly more births than we’d expect in the first six months of this year. The total amount is 32,000. Consider them as individuals, not statistics, and let that sink in.
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