Abortion restrictions harm mental health, with low-income women hardest hit

By Brad Greenwood, Professor, George Mason University
Gordon Burtch, Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor of Information Systems, Boston University
Michaela R. Anderson, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

People living in states that enacted tighter abortion restrictions in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, which returned regulation of abortion access to state legislatures, are more likely to report elevated levels of mental distress. This is particularly true for people of lower socioeconomic means.

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