Latin American Abortion Laws Hurt Health Care and the Economy--a Lesson for a Post-Roe U.S. - Scientific American

"Overall, we found extensive financial costs to individual women, as well as to national governments, when there are restrictive abortion laws," Rodgers says. Women, she discovered, faced higher medical costs because they tended to delay abortions and seek unsafe procedures. In Latin America, medical assistance following an unsafe abortion made up more than half of countries' budgets for obstetric care...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/latin-american-abortion-laws-hurt-health-care-and-the-economy-a-lesson-for-a-post-roe-u-s/