Source: https://x.com/jenniferdoleac/status/1816966405553832075

The Impact of Denying a Wanted Abortion on Women and Children

https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f206906.pdf

"...administrative data from Colombia and credibly exogenous variation in abortion access. Women facing barriers to abortion can file a tutela, which is randomly assigned to judges. We find that female judges are 20 p.p. (32%) less likely to deny abortion than male judges...Death records reveal that it more than doubles women’s risk of dying in the subsequent nine months"