The U.S. maternal mortality rate has dropped 19.7% since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to enact protective pro-life laws protecting babies from abortions. That’s according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
In 2022, the year of the ruling overturning Roe and states instituting the first abortion bans, the rate was 22.3 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
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