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A new study says nearly 10,000 additional babies were born in Texas in the nine-month period after the state banned most abortions. The analysis from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health considered live births from April through December 2022, which covers women who were at least seven-weeks pregnant when the law took effect or who later became pregnant. The researchers compared the number of actual births to an estimate of how many births would likely have happened in Texas if the law hadn't been passed.