Mon, Nov 1, 2021
TxPEP data on the number of abortions before and after the implementation of Senate Bill 8 on September 1, 2021 is covered in The Upshot (New York Times).
“It’s one data point in a further downward slide,” Kari White, the project’s principal investigator, said of the September numbers, which cover roughly 93 percent of total abortions in the state. “I would expect we’ll see the number decrease in subsequent months.”
Read more on the decline in in-state abortion and increases in out-of-state appointment wait times in TxPEP’s research brief.