Ending Roe Was Supposed to Reduce Abortions. It Didn’t.

From the moment that Roe v. Wade was overturned, the question was just how much the change would reduce abortions across the United States. Now, more than a year later, the numbers are in.

Margot Sanger-Katz, who writes about health care for The Upshot, explains why the results are not what anyone had expected.

Guest: Margot Sanger-Katz, a domestic correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women who would have gotten abortions in states that banned it carried their pregnancies to term.
• The first full-year census of U.S. abortion providers showed significant increases in abortion in states where it’s legal.

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