Nearly 10,000 additional babies were born in Texas over a nine-month period following the state’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The peer-reviewed analysis, published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated the number of live births versus the expected birth counts after Texas Senate Bill 8, also known as the Heartbeat Act, took effect Sept. 1, 2021.
The researchers calculated an expected 287,289 live births in Texas from April to December, but the actual number of babies born was 297,088.
“We estimated that the SB 8 Policy was associated with 9,799 additional births in Texas between April and December 2022,” the authors wrote….