More than 64,000 rape survivors in the US became pregnant in states that implemented abortion bans following the overruling of Roe vs Wade, a new study has found.

Combing through multiple government records, including those with the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, researchers found that approximately 520,000 vaginal rapes occurred between 1 July 2022 and the start of this year across 14 US states that banned abortion, and around 12.5 per cent of those rapes resulted in pregnancy.

“In this cross-sectional study, thousands of girls and women in states that banned abortion experienced rape-related pregnancy, but few (if any) obtained in-state abortions legally, suggesting that rape exceptions fail to provide reasonable access to abortion for survivors,” according to a study published on Wednesday in Jama.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rape-survivors-pregnant-abortion-ban-b2484597.html