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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
As Tennessee awaits official state data, preliminary reports show that the number of births in the state has increased nearly one-fourth since the abortion ban went into effect.
Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Tennessee instituted one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Abortions are only allowed in the cases of rare medical emergencies.
Since that ban in August 2022, researchers from the IZA Institute of Labor Economics estimate that the number of live births in Tennessee has increased by 24.6%. This reflects an increase of 2,573 births each year.
Tennessee Right to Life president Stacy Dunn celebrated the report’s findings.
“Tennessee law is working as intended and has already saved the lives of thousands of unborn children,” Dunn said. “We are grateful for the legislators who worked with us to make our law one of the strongest pro-life laws in the nation and who made sure it remained strong in the last legislative session.”
Representative Ed Butler (R-Rickman-District 41) proposed legislation during this year’s General Assembly that would require newborn safety devices, commonly referred to as “baby boxes”, to be placed in each county as a way for mothers to anonymously drop off a newborn baby at a fire house or police station.
That bill, with a cost of around $2 million, was placed behind the budget.
