Ending Roe Was Supposed to Reduce Abortions. It Didn’t.

<p>From the moment that Roe v. Wade was overturned, the question was just how much the change would reduce abortions across the United States. Now, more than a year later, the numbers are in.</p><p>Margot Sanger-Katz, who writes about health care for The Upshot, explains why the results are not what anyone had expected.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/margot-sanger-katz?smid=pc-thedaily">Margot Sanger-Katz</a>, a domestic correspondent for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> almost a quarter of women</a> who would have gotten abortions in states that banned it carried their pregnancies to term.</li><li>The first full-year census of U.S. abortion providers showed<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/upshot/abortion-numbers-dobbs.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> significant increases in abortion</a> in states where it’s legal.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>