What: The New York Times breaks down an NBER study that found abortion bans led to higher birth rates, but not a significant increase in the overall birth rate. In other words, the research suggests that the rise in births is due to women being forced to continue pregnancies, not a baby boom. And those forced pregnancies were more likely to happen to “Black and Hispanic women, women without a college degree, and women living farthest from a clinic.”

Key line: “The rise in births was small, suggesting that most women who wanted abortions had still gotten them, said Diana Greene Foster, the director of research at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California at San Francisco. Still, she said, the new study was persuasive in showing the effects of bans: ‘I now feel more convinced that some people really did have to carry pregnancies to term.’”

Source: The New York Times