CNN interviewed May Sudhinaraset, associate professor of the UCLA Fielding School’s Department of Community Health Sciences, about a study she led, published in the December 2020 edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, that found American women living in states with less restrictive reproductive rights policies are less likely to give birth to low-birth weight babies.
Women in states with fewer reproductive health restrictions deliver healthier babies, at least as measured by birth weight, researchers reported Tuesday.