Ever since the Supreme Court overturned abortion rights with the Dobbs ruling there have been anecdotes about people fleeing the red states for the friendlier environs of the blue states.

According to an article in Axios, there is now a reliable study confirming the anecdotes; there really is a brain drain caused by red states banning abortions.

“People are making migration decisions” based on these bans, says Jason Lindo, an economist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who just published a widely read study on the topic.

Lindo and his coauthors found states with total abortion bans collectively lost about 128,700 residents in the first year following the Dobbs decision.

If these trends continue over a five-year period, it would mean a nearly 1% population loss for ban states compared to those with protections around reproductive healthcare, he tells Axios.

The study was done using U.S. Postal Service change-of-address data in red states and blue states both before and after Dobbs.

And yes, the people who are moving are doctors and young adults at the start of their professional careers—the people that states would not want to be losing.

Think of this study as the yang to yesterday’s yin, a true scientific study to an agenda-pushing piece of crap.