NEW REPORT: Mastriano’s Extreme Abortion Ban Would Cost Pennsylvania $10 Billion Every Year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 23, 2022
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NEW REPORT: Mastriano’s Extreme Abortion Ban Would Cost Pennsylvania $10 Billion Every Year
“We have confidence that the economic cost of a full abortion ban in Pennsylvania would be more than double the IWPR cost estimate, or over $10 billion yearly in Pennsylvania alone.”
– Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
PENNSYLVANIA – On Thursday, Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center released a new report calculating that a total ban on abortion would cost Pennsylvania at least $10 billion per year. According to the report, an outright abortion ban like the one Mastriano supports would result in “reductions in full-time employment, increased incidence of poverty, more women raising children alone, and greater reliance on public assistance.”
This report comes just days after Doug Mastriano doubled down once again on his number one priority – criminalizing and banning abortion – during an appearance at the March for Life in Harrisburg, calling it “the single most important issue in our lifetime.”
The economic impacts of extreme laws aren’t theoretical – in Texas and North Carolina, radical abortion bans and anti-LGBTQ+ laws signed by Republican Governors, the same kind of laws that Mastriano plans to pass in Pennsylvania, led to job losses and less business in the state.
With just 46 days until the election, the stakes are higher than ever before – and abortion access is on the ballot. Doug Mastriano’s plan to ban all abortions without exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother is not only extreme, it would also diminish our workforce, increase poverty, and slash wages across the Commonwealth.
Read the full report from the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center on the Cost of Banning Abortion in Pennsylvania here.
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