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Study: Medicaid Data Casts Significant Doubt On Abortion As ‘Essential’ For Birth Spacing

Abortion advocates have insisted that abortion access is important for spacing children.

Mairead Elordi
Study: Medicaid Data Casts Significant Doubt On Abortion As ‘Essential’ For Birth Spacing
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A new study analyzing Medicaid data casts doubt on the notion that abortion is “essential” for spacing children, as abortion advocates have insisted.

Among nearly five million Medicaid-eligible women who had at least one pregnancy, only 1% may have used abortion to space their children, according to a peer-reviewed study by scholars at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the Susan B. Anthony List.

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