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Feb 28 18 tweets 6 min read
Good morning, today the Senate Budget Committee is holding a hearing on "abortion access and the economic costs of having children."

🧵 We'll be analyzing claims live in this thread – bookmark it to follow along
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First up: @SenWhitehouse cites the Turnaway study.

What's true: the study found limited adverse economic impacts, primarily in the short-term, of being denied abortion

What's not: even the study authors admit differences in outcomes "gradually converged" after 5 years.
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Feb 7 15 tweets 3 min read
🧵 On February 5th, @Sage_Publishing announced it would retract three of our studies.

All three use Medicaid records-linkage data, the highest quality abortion-related data available in the U.S.

This should be of great concern to the entire research community.
1/15 Image For over a decade, CLI has been an established voice in the national research community with dozens of published articles and citations in the public square.

The quality of this work and its impact have been undeniable.
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Feb 1, 2023 12 tweets 5 min read
THREAD: Even @MotherJones is saying it: Big Abortion is a big business. And profits are high.

Some key points from their report: “The abortion pill’s secret money men”
motherjones.com/politics/2023/…
1/12 "The pill presented an obvious financial opportunity: the rare sort of drug that they’d never have trouble selling, for a condition that would never cease to exist."
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May 8, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
🧵This Mother’s Day we’re celebrating policies and resources that support moms! Read on to learn more ⬇ 1/ Many states have developed Alternatives to Abortion (A2A) programs which support women and unborn children during pregnancy and during the first years of a child’s life: lozierinstitute.org/alternatives-t…

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Nov 16, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
🧵The rate of abortion-related emergency room visits following a chemical abortion increased over 500% between 2002-2015. Yet the @US_FDA is considering removing longstanding safeguards on the abortion pill. Read on to learn why this is dangerous. lozierinstitute.org/public-health-… 1/6 A new CLI longitudinal study examined the largest universe of actual US pregnancy outcomes ever analyzed, using Medicaid data from 1999 to 2015 which shows chemical abortion is not as safe as the abortion industry claims. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 2/6