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EditordWe write in response to the US Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating an almost 50-yr constitutional right to abortion. Stevenson and colleagues 1 estimated that in states predicted to enact complete abortion bans, maternal deaths could increase by 29%. Disparities in mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the USA are well documented. 2 Few studies, however, have analysed maternal outcomes by state, which is cohorted by the Guttmacher Institute as either abortion restrictive (22 states restricting abortion access through laws including bans after a certain gestational age, waiting periods, regulation of abortion providers, and funding) or abortion protective (16 states without laws that restrict access to abortion or funding). 3 To establish a state-level comparison baseline for anticipated post-Dobbs abortion restrictions, we …