Roe’s Missing Americans

By quantifying how a Roe-era abortion regime altered cohort sizes—estimating only a 3–6% net birth uplift without abortion but 7.6–15.3 million propagated 'missing' births since 1973—demography enters abortion politics. This reframes abortion from solely a rights dispute to a population-structure driver with economic and social spillovers. — It links abortion policy to labor force size, entitlement solvency, immigration pressures, and pronatalist agendas, reshaping how parties argue costs and benefits of post-Dobbs regimes.