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A group of women hold abortion-rights protest signs at a busy intersection.

People living in states that enacted tighter abortion restrictions in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health[1] decision, which returned regulation of abortion access to state legislatures[2], are more likely to report elevated levels of mental distress. This is particularly true for people of lower socioeconomic means.

These are the key takeaways of our July 2024 paper published in Science Advances[3].

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