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Texas had estimated 26,000 pregnancies from rape since total abortion ban
Additionally, fertility rates in the state have increased, both overall and for teens, for the first time in years.

Texas has had an estimated 26,000 rape-related pregnancies since the state enacted its abortion bans, according to new research published Wednesday.

Doctors performed fewer than 10 abortions per month in Texas in the first eight months of 2023, meaning that survivors of rape may have crossed state lines for the procedure or self-managed an abortion. Texas’ abortion bans don’t include exceptions for rape or incest.

“Many women who become impregnated by rape, at least some of them are going to be able to go out-of-state, some of them are going to be able to get a self-managed abortion with pills acquired surreptitiously,” said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a professor of public health at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and co-author of the report.

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Completed vaginal rapes were associated with nearly 65,000 pregnancies in the 14 states that implemented total abortion bans since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, researchers estimated. About 59,000 of those pregnancies, or around 91%, occurred in states without abortion exceptions for rape.

Texas — which implemented a total abortion ban in late July 2022 — accounts for an estimated 45% of rape-related pregnancies in states without such exceptions. Missouri and Tennessee represented the next two highest pregnancy rates among states without rape exceptions, with 5,825 and 4,993, respectively.

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