Shield laws have become a lifeline for abortion patients and providers in the US post-Dobbs, which is precisely why conservative policymakers are turning to the courts, Congress, and state legislatures to attack this critical method of care. 🧵 www.guttmacher.org/2025/09/atta...

Proud to have signed on to this letter, along with many other colleagues in the field (including @guttmacher.org researchers @cbpolis.bsky.social , @megankavanaugh.bsky.social, Kathryn Kost, Rachel Jones, Ann Moore and Beth Sully)

Check out our new brief @ccfamilies.bsky.social on the limitations of population projections for understanding future fertility patterns. The growing public discourse on declining fertility needs demographers voices and expertise, while recognizing the limits of our methods.

Are we doomed to a demographic destiny of decline because ladies aren't having babies? No. We've been here before. It turns out that population projections only describe one of many possible futures. Our actual future is still to be written.

Feeling alarmed over dire long-term population projections that suggest humanity will disappear? Don't be! Demographers generally aren't worried, and you shouldn't be either. @amandajean.bsky.social explains why in this great @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

Really enjoyed talking to Lizzy McNeill on the BBC More or Less podcast about trends in abortion provision post Dobbs (along with @ushma.bsky.social !) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n

This is such a great thoughtful and nuanced post by @rmcelreath.bsky.social on open science/computational reproducibility - especially on the need to make research and code *intelligible*, not just transparent. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels. Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/

As mifepristone continues to be threatened (read: RFK Jr's baseless/insane claims about safety) more folks are considering the role of misoprostol-only medication abortion regimens in the US Well happy Monday folks because I have *two* new studies out for you: (1/4)

Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday

New: SCOTUS *allows* states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. Back in April Terri-Ann and I wrote about the public health implications of this ruling - and trust us…they are major thehill.com/opinion/5235...

More than 150,000 people traveled out of state to get an abortion last year, nearly one-fifth of whom coming from Texas alone — and new numbers paint a picture of how far they went to receive care. It’s been three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. wapo.st/3TCXhxF

Everyone deserves access to abortion care in their communities via their preferred method, whether that is an in clinic procedure, via telemedicine, or abortion pills sourced form a community network. Any restrictions that limit people's choices are unjust. Full stop.

Just looking at the map (article is paywalled, unfortunately): God bless Carbondale, and all of southern Illinois

And as #WeCount and others have documented - the increased availability of telehealth through shield law providers is likely playing a big role here as well: helping many people access abortion care who would have otherwise traveled very far distances or not been able to access care at all.

Three years post Dobbs, enormously high numbers of people are still crossing state lines to access abortion care: the Monthly Provision Study just released new data on where they are coming from and where they are going. www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...

@doctorshelleysella.bsky.social's book is probably one of the best things I've read in the past decade.

I saw my city council member biking across the bridge in the other direction from me on my way back from work today and I truly have never been so excited by a celebrity sighting

The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program was central in improving the evidence base for health policies and interventions, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central & Southern Asia - figure by @aasli.bsky.social. Our preprint on the termination of the DHS Program: osf.io/preprints/so...

Really useful primer, and also includes this major contribution to the literature

Why don’t young people use prescription contraception? Our new national MyVoice study asked 14–24-year-olds directly. The top 3 reasons: 🔸 Concern about side effects 🔸 Fear of judgment 🔸 Difficulty accessing care www.jpagonline.org/article/S108...

I talked with @propublica.org while I was at #PAA2025 about attacks on federal data and said "Burying your head in the sand is not going to be a way to keep the country healthy." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Also: I also want to shout out our fielding team, who (among many other things) do all of the data collection for the study -- really excellent, careful, data collection is one of those aspects of research that is often underemphasized, and I'm incredibly lucky to work with such a great team.

Yesterday, we released new estimates (for 2024) of the number of people obtaining abortions in states without total bans & the number of people traveling across state lines to access care www.guttmacher.org/report/stabi...

In this new study, we estimate that >2/3 of girls ages 13-17 live in states with abortion bans, restrictive gestational limits or parental involvement requirements. That's 7 million teens unable to control their lives and their futures jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The effects of abortion bans vary tremendously across counties and demographic groups. New @nber.org working paper with Daniel Dench and @mayrapinedat.bsky.social. [1/10] www.nber.org/papers/w33548

This is such a great paper on such an important topic - in the context of missing data and huge drops in response rates; we can’t just assume that weights will rescue us.

🚨New Pub in @bmj.com Sexual and Reproductive Health Why are people in the US obtaining advance provision of medication abortion pills? Post Dobbs - and more recently after the 2024 presidential election - more people are ordering abortion pills to have just in case ⬇️ srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

And the trickiest part: that the required skills and training for these things overlap hardly at all

Another one of these I really like in Brooklyn

Super proud of our work on @guttmacher.org’s state policy team! Read our year end state policy trends report here: www.guttmacher.org/2024/12/stat...

New research from our team at the Mullan Institute: no significant changes in state-level OBGYN movement after Dobbs, but longstanding workforce challenges in states that now have abortion bans. The effects of Dobbs on the workforce - including moral injury - are huge and will take years to unfold.

New NSFG survey data available 🎉👍 Response rate 23% 👎🥺😢 User Guide warns caution in making comparisons over time, which limits the value of this data. 💔

Happy NSFG Release Day! www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/ns...

You know you have been doing abortion research a long time when you start to think of the fourth Thursday of November as the “day after the CDC abortion report comes out”.

New CDC abortion data for 2022 were just released, and this article provides important context on how to interpret the new statistics, including quotes from @guttmacher.org expert @imaddowzimet.bsky.social. Strong reporting by @cartersherman.bsky.social amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Allow me to introduce you to @abortionsquad.bsky.social if you're not familiar. OARS runs r/abortion, the subreddit that's open 24/7/365 to help people around the world access safe abortion care. (1/6)

Talked to Iowa Public Radio about data we just released on the impact of the six-week ban in Iowa - showing an estimated 38% decline in clinician-provided abortions in the state after the ban went into effect. www.iowapublicradio.org/health/2024-...

Did anyone else notice that PRAMS response rates in the south seem to have plummeted in 2022? (even aside from the context of overall declines in response rates?)

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As someone who is moving apartments with their toddler in the next month, new Bluey episode causing all kinds of fun exciting difficulties