Abortion Bans Raised Annual US Births by 32,000, Study Shows

About 32,000 more babies are being born annually in the US after the Supreme Court overruled the constitutional right to abortion, an analysis showed.

Births rose an average of 2.3% in states with prohibitions on abortion compared with those where the procedure remained available, according to the report from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Middlebury College that analyzed data from the first six months of 2023.

After the Dobbs decision that overturned nearly 50 years of precedent set in 1973 by Roe v. Wade, 13 states with “trigger bans” moved quickly to prohibit abortions. As many as one ...