Purportedly "Pro-Life" States With Anti-Abortion Laws Aren't Pro-Life After All, Study Shows

A study published last week by Northwestern Medicine reveals that states with the strictest abortion restrictions tend to leave behind the very people they claim to protect. 

These states have lower participation in state-funded assistance programs, are less likely to adopt family-supportive policies, more often restrict access to other reproductive health services, and are less likely to permit pharmacists to prescribe birth control, according to the study's findings.

"Proponents of abortion restrictions, who identify as ‘pro-life,’ assert that these policies are essential to protect children, women and families," senior author Lynn Yee said. "It would seem in these states that the abortion-opponent, ‘pro-life’ attitude not only begins at conception but ends there as well."

The lack of services in these abortion-restrictive states hurts families, including children, with lower rates of state funding for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. 

Read more at Northwestern Medicine.

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