How Abortion Restrictions Exacerbate America’s Affordability Crisis
Abortion restrictions are not only a threat to reproductive freedom—they deepen America’s affordability crisis, forcing people to choose between accessing care and maintaining their financial security.
Ms. Magazine
By IWPR President and CEO Dr. Jamila K. Taylor and National Abortion Federation President and CEO Brittany Fonteno
Few decisions carry more weight than whether or when to have a child. Women who decide to end a pregnancy are making an intensely personal, at times deeply emotional, decision. They deserve quality care, compassion and respect. Instead, under the Trump administration, abortion restrictions are expanding and options for care are disappearing.
Four years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, abortion care comes with a maze of logistical and financial hurdles.
A new study from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) concluded Widespread abortion restrictions across numerous states and the rollback of federal funding and protections costs our country $140 billion annually. And the 16 states with the most restrictive abortion policies cost the national economy nearly $68 billion annually in lost earnings.