TY - JOUR
AU1 - Sommers, Paul M.
AB - Atl Econ J (2021) 49:425–427 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-022-09732-x ANTHOLOGY Will Overturning Roe v. Wade Blow More Holes in America’s Safety Net? Paul M. Sommers Accepted: 13 January 2022 /Published online: 24 January 2022 © International Atlantic Economic Society 2022 JEL I38 On May 19, 2021, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law one of the nation’s most far-reaching anti-abortion measures. When the law went into effect September 1, 2021, Texas became the latest U.S. state with a trigger law that would ban all or nearly all abortions if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion. States with so-called trigger laws had bans on abortion before 1973 that would make abortion illegal in that state if Roe v. Wade were overturned. The 11 states currently with trigger laws are Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah (Guttmacher Institute, 2021, www. guttm acher. org/ state- policy/ explo re/ abort ion- policy- absen ce- roe). In multiple-state metropolitan statisti- cal areas (MSAs), such as the St. Louis MSA spanning counties in Missouri (a state with a trigger law) and Illinois (a state without a trigger law), the state abortion reg- ulation only 
TI - Will Overturning Roe v. Wade Blow More Holes in America’s Safety Net?
JF - Atlantic Economic Journal
DO - 10.1007/s11293-022-09732-x
DA - 2021-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/will-overturning-roe-v-wade-blow-more-holes-in-america-s-safety-net-54aQdd0nMk
SP - 425
EP - 427
VL - 49
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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