Fewer Abortions Post-Dobbs

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW231397193 BCX4"> <p><span data-contrast="none">According</span> <span data-contrast= "auto">to</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/ameliatd/status/1669349073865035777?t=i-r19WMzFUTcpwXyaJnAXw&s=19"> <span data-contrast="none">a recent report on the online source FiveThirtyEight</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">,</span> <span data-contrast="none">the <em>Dobbs</em> decision has made a big difference. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">“There were almost 94,000 fewer abortions in states that implemented bans post-Dobbs, just between July and March,”</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/ameliatd/status/1669349073865035777?t=i-r19WMzFUTcpwXyaJnAXw&s=19"> <span data-contrast="none">author Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux summarized in a Twitter thread</span></a><span data-contrast="none">. “Almost 100k affected and that’s not even the full year.” And, in states without bans, “Abortions rose by ~70,000.” In other words, the</span> <em><span data-contrast="none">Dobbs</span></em> <span data-contrast="none">decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned</span> <em><span data-contrast="none">Roe v. Wade</span></em> <span data-contrast="none">and returned the abortion decision back to the states has meant a net decrease of 24,000 abortions nationwide.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Some bans have had a more significant impact than others. For example, abortion in states that “have banned abortion after six weeks ... [abortions] tend to drop by 50-60%. If that happened in FL, where a six-week ban is pending, we could be talking about 4k fewer abortions MONTHLY.”</span> <span data-ccp-props= "{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}">  </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">To be clear, Thomson-DeVeaux is alarmed b