RESEARCH BRIEF IWPR #B391 January 2024 UPDATED ANALYSIS OF THE COST OF ABORTION RESTRICTIONS TO STATES INTRODUCTION Each year, the number of state-level restrictions on abortion access increases, and in some states, they get more and more extreme. [...] To capture the ongoing harm of these restrictions—not only to women’s health but also to the economy—the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) developed a novel model to analyze the impact of state-level abortion restrictions on economic outcomes. [...] The model connects 2020–2022 data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics—specifically, the monthly Current Population Survey—to data from the Guttmacher Institute on the number and type of restrictions in each state to estimate the impact of abortion restrictions on states’ gross domestic product (GDP). [...] The main difference in this second edition of the research is the inclusion of medication abortion as a category of restriction. [...] The impacts of the restrictions are complicated and multi- faceted, yet the solutions are often relatively straightforward.
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