The impact of state-level restrictions on abortion. Academic Article

abstract

• This research examines 23 different laws passed by state governments in an effort to restrict the number of abortions. It assesses both laws passed and laws actually enforced after the Supreme Court permitted states to restrict access to abortion in 1989. None of the policy actions by state governments has had a significant impact on the incidence of abortion from 1982 to 1992. Abortion rates continue to reflect past abortion rates, the number of abortion providers, whether the state funds abortions for Medicaid-eligible women, urbanism, and racial composition of the population. Recent restrictive policies have not affected these trends.

authors

• Meier, Kenneth

published proceedings

• Demography

altmetric score

• 10.65

author list (cited authors)

• Meier, K. J., Haider-Markel, D. P., Stanislawski, A. J., & McFarlane, D. R.

citation count

• 35

complete list of authors

• Meier, KJ||Haider-Markel, DP||Stanislawski, AJ||McFarlane, DR

publication date

• August 1996

publisher

• Duke University Press  Publisher

published in

• Demography  Journal

keywords

• Abortion, Induced
• Abortion, Legal
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Age Distribution
• Empirical Approach
• Female
• Genetics And Reproduction
• Health Policy
• Health Services Accessibility
• Humans
• Informed Consent
• Models, Theoretical
• Pregnancy
• Regression Analysis
• United States

PubMed Central ID

• 8875064

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/2061763

start page

• 307

end page

• 312

volume

• 33

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.2307%2F2061763