From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily. Today. from the moment that Roe versus Wade was overturned, the question was just how much it would reduce abortions across the US. Now more than a year later the

numbers are in and as my colleague Margot Sanger Katz explains, they are not what anyone had expected. It's Wednesday, November 29th.

It's Wednesday, November 29th. overturned by the Supreme Court. You came on the daily to describe the new legal

landscape of abortion in the US. What a new state by state post-row map of

access and restriction was going to look like as a result of that court decision.

And the question back then was, what was going to be the impact of that new map on the number

of abortions in the U.S.

But of course, we didn't have any data back then.

It's true. It was a really an open question. If all of these states banned abortion, what

was going to happen to the women who used to have abortions in those states. Would they travel

to another state and get an abortion anyway? Would they order pills from

overseas through kind of not totally legal methods and have illegal abortions,

would they have less sex or use more birth control and become less likely to be

pregnant, or would they end up carrying pregnancies to term that they would have

terminated in the past and there would be more babies and because it takes a long

time for a baby to gestate and be born, we have sort of been

waiting for a long time to see what happened. And now more than a year after Roe was overturned, we finally have the answer.

And what is the answer?

So the newest data that we have and we think the best data actually looked at how many births happened in the aftermath of the

Dobbs decision. That was the decision that overturned Roe versus Wade and

what we found out is that in every one of the 13 states that banned abortion immediately

after the Supreme Court decision, births increased.

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