Abortion rights advocate California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched ads criticizing efforts in Republican-led states to s
A January 2024 paper estimated that there have been 64,565 rape-induced pregnancies in 14 states that have enacted total abortion bans since June 2022.
Nine of the states don’t have exceptions for rape or incest; most that do allow abortion only through the first weeks of pregnancy, and require the sexual assault to be reported to law enforcement first. "Those 65,000 people who become pregnant due to rape are no longer afforded the same legal reproductive rights they were prior to Trump & Republican-appointed Justices overturning Roe — forcing them to give birth to their rapists’ baby," Newsom spokesperson Brandon Richards wrote in an email.
The CDC’s annual sexual violence telephone survey involved 15,152 women and 12,419 men ages 18 and older and included detailed responses to numerous questions about the nature of their experiences with sexual violence. Using that data, the letter’s authorsin combination with FBI data focused on states with total abortion bans: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
"It’s considered one of the most accurate sources of information on people’s experience of sexual violence, and is considered to be very good, though unlikely perfect, at capturing reported and unreported rapes," White said."A limitation is we are assuming any underreporting is consistent across places, but to drill down to the state level, we had to rely on a couple different data sources to make our estimate.
"For many of the states we looked at, the people living in those states are facing travel distances of 300 to 800 miles to get to another place where abortion is legal and that is going to be a really difficult travel obstacle to overcome," White said."Particularly given what we know about people who are survivors of rape — many of them are in unsafe relationships or in dangerous family situations, making it even more difficult to travel.
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