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After Roe v. Wade: US researchers warn of what’s to come

Years of studies point to the negative economic and health effects of restricting access to abortions.
  1. Mariana Lenharo
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The constitutional right to an abortion has been struck down in the United States. The US Supreme Court announced on 24 June that it would overturn the 1973 landmark decision Roe v. Wade, which had protected abortion access up until the point that a fetus can live outside the womb — typically set at 22 or 24 weeks of pregnancy. Public-health researchers have renewed their warnings about the harms that this decision will bring to the country.

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Nature 607, 15-16 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01775-z

Editor’s note: Nature recognizes that transgender men and non-binary people might become pregnant and seek abortion care. We use ‘women’ in this story to reflect how participants are reported in the studies we cite.

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