Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion: Effects on Pregnancy Resolutions and Birth Weight

How Are Restrictive Abortion Statutes Associated With Unintended Teen Birth?

“…However, we did note a fourfold increase in both mistimed and unwanted birth among black minors in states with Medicaid funding restrictions. These results are consistent with other studies demonstrating that black women, compared to white women, are more likely to continue pregnancies when funding restrictions are enforced [33,34]. The interplay between Medicaid eligibility, socioeconomic status, and race is complicated, and we may not have fully captured the Medicaid-eligible population by focusing only on those who received prenatal or peripartum Medicaid.…”

Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the "Marginal Child"?

“…A large number of studies demonstrate that there is positive selection on fetal health: abortion access, as measured by number of providers or abortion rates, is correlated with a sizable improvement in infant outcomes such as low birth weight or neonatal mortality [Grossman and Jacobowitz 1981;Corman and Grossman 1985;Joyce 1987;Grossman and Joyce 1990;Currie, Nixon, and Cole 1996]. But this evidence may not be pertinent for assessing the relative living circumstances of cohorts who do and do not have access to abortion; the pregnancies that are terminated may have been those of well-off women who had unhealthy fetuses, so that selection on living circumstances is negative even as selection on fetal health is positive.…”

Estimating the factors determining the demand for induced abortions among married women in Taiwan

“…Powell-Griner and Trent (1987) showed that women with no previous births are more likely to have an abortion than those with one or more previous births. Some of the earlier research depicts the relationship between birth outcomes and the availability of abortion services (Corman and Grossman 1985;Joyce and Grossman, 1990;Currie et al 1996). In addition, Gohmann and Ohsfeldt (1994) and Blank et al (1996) also found that greater abortion availability in the USA was associated with lower fertility and a higher abortion rate.…”