The maternal mortality consequences of losing abortion access

Stevenson, Amanda Jean; Root, Leslie; Menken, Jane

doi:10.31235/osf.io/7g29k

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“…The maternal health and midlife mortality crises are likely to affect the U.S. population through multiple avenues. Demographic predictions warn that a total abortion ban could lead to excess pregnancy-related deaths of nearly 25% (40,41) while other work suggests that it may have consequences for in-vitro fertilization rates, contributing to a decline in number of births (42).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Long-term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on U.S. Population Structure

Tilstra¹,

Polizzi²,

Wagner³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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The immediate, direct effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United States population are immense. Millions of people were affected by the pandemic: many died, others did not give birth, and still others could not migrate. Research that has examined these individual phenomena is important, but fragmented. The disruption of mortality, fertility, and migration jointly affected U.S. population counts and, consequently, future population structure. We use data from the United Nations World Population Prospects and the cohort component projection method to isolate the effect of the pandemic on U.S. population estimates until 2060. If the pandemic had not occurred, the population of the U.S. would have 2.1 million (0.63%) more people in 2025, and 1.7 million (0.44%) more people in 2060. Perhaps most striking is that pandemic-induced migration changes will likely have a larger long-term effect on future population size than mortality, despite comparable short-term effects.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Long-term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on U.S. Population Structure

Tilstra¹,

Polizzi²,

Wagner³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…A study from researchers at the University of Colorado, using well‐established evidence regarding the risks of pregnancy/childbirth and conservative demographic estimation methods, predicts that current and forthcoming state‐level abortion bans will likely lead to at least a 14% increase in maternal mortality annually in the United States, with rates significantly higher for Black women 45 . This research also estimated that a total abortion ban in the United States would likely lead to a 24% increase in maternal mortality overall, with a 39% increase among Black women.…”

Section: Implications Of Restrictive Abortion Policies On Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Abortion Policy in the United States: The New Legal Landscape and Its Threats to Health and Socioeconomic Well‐Being

et al. 2023

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The historic 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization decision has created a new public policy landscape in the United States that will restrict access to legal and safe abortion for a significant proportion of the population. Policies restricting access to abortion bring with them significant threats and harms to health by delaying or denying essential evidence‐based medical care and increasing the risks for adverse maternal and infant outcomes, including death. Restrictive abortion policies will increase the number of children born into and living in poverty, increase the number of families experiencing serious financial instability and hardship, increase racial inequities in socioeconomic security, and put significant additional pressure on under‐resourced social welfare systems.

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“…In a preprint study 8 , Amanda Stevenson, a sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, and her colleagues modelled what would have happened in 2020 if no one had had access to abortions in 26 states that have imposed bans or are reasonably likely to do so in the future. The authors of the study made some assumptions: for example, that people who request abortions have the same age distribution as do those who have babies, and that the risk of maternal death is the same in people who have abortions as in those who don't.…”

Section: Maternal Deaths Are Likely To Risementioning

confidence: 99%