Wages, incarceration rates and unemployment benefits access worse when compared with states allowing the procedure
Wages, employment security, incarceration rates and access to unemployment benefits are all worse in US states where abortion is restricted or banned, compared with those where it is protected, a new report has found.
The report by the Economic Policy Institute also found that minimum wages are, on average, $3.75 an hour lower in abortion restrictive states compared with protective states ($8.17 compared with $11.92); and that restrictive states incarcerate people at 1.5 times the rate of protective states.
“There is strong empirical evidence that abortion denial and abortion bans have negative economic consequences, from prolonged financial distress to lower wages and earnings, employment, educational attainment, and economic mobility,” said Asha Banerjee, an economic analyst at EPI who authored the report.
“The states that have banned abortion rights are also the same states economically disempowering people through these other economic channels,” Banerjee added.
Since the US supreme court last year scrapped federal abortion rights previously guaranteed under Roe vs Wade, a wave of Republican-run states have moved to limit or ban abortion.
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