Tens of thousands of pregnancies from rape occurring in abortion-ban states

States with bans logged 10 or fewer legal abortions per month, despite rape exceptions.

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To be clear: Those pregnancies would have happened before abortion bans, too. It’s just more visible now.
- To further clarify: These figures are entirely based on estimates. They’re not “more visible” because of the abortion bans (the statistics used to make the estimates are based on pre-ban crime figures and an assumption about the percentage of rapes that result in pregnancy).
  
  I’m not saying this to criticise the study, but it’s important to understand what the numbers represent.

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