Reproductive Rights in America

Photo caption: The scene at the U.S. Supreme Court on the day it overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Researchers estimate that 64,565 rape-caused pregnancies have occurred in states that banned abortion since then. Photo credit: Jacquelyn Martin / AP. Article by Selena Simmons-Duffin. NPR – January 24, 2024. Research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens

As an abortion provider in Montana, Dr. Samuel Dickman has seen patients routinely who tell him they became pregnant after a rape. His sense was the patients who were telling him were only a fraction of the true number. […]

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