Economics Prof Creates Map to Show Students Where They Can Get an Abortion

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Campus Reform reports:

‘Unplanned Parenthood’ professor’s research maps out post-Roe abortion travel destinationsA Vermont economics professor has constructed a database to map out the nearest abortion clinic available to women who live in states with abortion bans following the reversal of Roe v. Wade.Middlebury College’s Caitlin Myers created the “Myers Abortion Facility Database,” which displays how legal changes to abortion access affect the abortion rate, birth rate, and changes to the number of available abortion centers.The current version of the map incorporates data from facilities that performed abortions going back from 2009 through May 2023. Myers launched the project in July 2021.Myers looked at Planned Parenthood directories across the country to check the operation status of abortion clinics, and has also employed 25 undergraduate research assistants to call the facilities for more information.In the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade, Myers filed an amicus brief in favor of abortion and compiled research on the supposed importance of terminating a pregnancy for women’s health. Her work was also used to claim that abortion distances would place an undue burden on women who would have difficulties accessing an abortion clinic.After the Dobbs ruling in 2022, Myers performed an “Abortion Appointment Availability Survey” to examine the effects of “trigger bans” on abortion access. The project received funding from the Society of Family Planning (SFP), as well as Middlebury College.SFP is an organization that advocates for “abortion and contraception practices and policies grounded in science and that center people whose access to care is constrained by systems of oppression.”

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