Social Policy and Abortion: A Review of the Research
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Since the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision legalizing abortion, many states have enacted laws restricting women’s access to an abortion. There has been considerable empirical research on the impact of these restrictive state abortion laws on women’s pregnancy resolution decisions. This paper reviews the empirical evidence regarding restrictions on abortion access. The empirical evidence indicates that demand-side policies (i.e., No Medicaid Funding, Parental Involvement Laws, Mandatory Counseling Laws, Mandatory Waiting Periods Laws, Partial-Birth Abortion Bans) have little effect on the incidence of abortion. TRAP laws, which are supply-side policies, have the greatest effect reducing
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