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Leaving aside the question of whether abortion bans are effective at their supposed goals, they nonetheless cause many harmful side-effects, including to many people who have never sought abortions.

2025/01/29 11:00 UTC [L..T] Column: The population exodus from antiabortion states is underway and may be picking up steam Research published this month by economists at Georgia Tech validates long-standing predictions that strict abortion bans in many states would drive a mass exodus to more supportive states. Specifically, the paper shows «that by mid-2023, the 13 states with total bans had suffered a combined net loss of an estimated 36,000 residents per quarter, or more than 144,000 per year.»

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 ==About==
-The best available data tend to indicate that [[abortion ban]]s do not significantly reduce the [[abortion]] rate.
+Leaving aside the question of whether [[abortion ban]]s are effective at [[../goal|their supposed goals]], they nonetheless cause many [[/neg|harmful side-effects]], including to many people who have never sought abortions.
-There is nonetheless a lot of {{l/sub|denial}} of this from the [[forced birth]] movement.
+There are no known [[/pos|positive side-effects]].
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-* '''2022-08-11''' [https://qz.com/2182193/abortion-bans-dont-lower-abortion-rates/ Abortion bans don’t reduce abortions, they just make them less safe]
-* '''2018-03-21''' [https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/health/abortion-restriction-laws/index.html Abortion restrictions don’t lower rates, report says] ([https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/3415/ via])