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Students in Damascus and other regime-controlled areas went back to school on Sunday. Rising costs of stationery and state-printed schoolbooks left parents and guardians with difficult choices amid the country’s unprecedented economic crisis.
A wave of academic studies in recent decades suggest that the option to terminate a pregnancy increases economic freedom, especially for women of color.
Overturning Roe vs. Wade and criminalizing abortion affects women in the workforce, too.
Decades of economic studies show that women saw educational and economic advances thanks to the legalization of abortion in 1973.
It's not just women who will face serious financial repercussions, but their families and communities, experts said.