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Assistant Professor Mayra Pineda-Torres in the School of Economics was quoted in "America’s Middle Class is Deteriorating. The Death of Roe Will Make it Worse." published in NBC News.
An excerpt:
Some women will have to wait to come up with necessary funds — and could end up waiting too long. Mayra Pineda-Torres, assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Economics, warned in an email that even for middle-class women, “arrangements can be so costly or impossible to make that some may end up not accessing abortion services.”