Executive Summary
Overturning Roe v. Wade would likely only affect 10% of abortion decisions in the United States. The actual number of abortions prevented would be lower.
This brief uses public opinion data and data on reported U.S. abortions in 2002 to estimate that overturning Roe v. Wade and passing statewide abortion bans in the 16 states where a majority of residents oppose abortion would affect only 10%, or about 100,000, abortion decisions. The actual decrease in the number of abortions would likely be less than 100,000. In contrast, the strong economy of the 1990s caused the abortion rate to decline at a much greater rate: despite a growing U.S. population, there were more than 300,000 fewer abortions in 2000 than in 1990.
Executive SummaryOverturning Roe v. Wade would likely only affect 10% of abortion decisions in the United States. The actual number of abortions prevented would be lower.This brief uses public opinion data and data on reported U.S. abortions in 2002 to estimate that overturning Roe v. Wade and passing statewide abortion bans in the 16 states where a majority of residents oppose abortion would affect only 10%, or about 100,000, abortion decisions. The actual decrease in the number of abortions would likely be less than 100,000. In contrast, the strong economy of the 1990s caused the abortion rate to decline at a much greater rate: despite a growing U.S. population, there were more than 300,000 fewer abortions in 2000 than in 1990.
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