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Report: Abortion restrictions cost Oklahoma economy more than $1.8 billion annually
StateImpact Oklahoma
By Jillian Taylor
Abortion bans and restrictions are costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars annually in lost earnings among women ages 15 through 44, according to a new analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Oklahoma’s policies account for more than $1.8 billion of those losses.
The data comes four years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The DC-based think tank drew on three years of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to follow the impacts of abortion policies across every state. It used a seven-tier classification system created by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization that supports abortion access, to highlight the severity of state-level policies.
Oklahoma is one of 16 states categorized as “most restrictive.” This designation applies to states with total or near-total abortion bans in effect last year.
“Most restrictive” states result in nearly $68 billion in lost earnings annually, according to the report.