The Determinants and Impact of State Abortion Restrictions

Medoff, Marshall H.

doi:10.1111/1536-7150.00169

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“…Building off theories of critical mass, several scholars find that as the presence of women legislators increases, the adoption of restrictive abortion policy is less likely. These findings are stronger when looking at only Democratic women (Hansen 1993;Medoff 2002;Norrander and Wilcox 2001;Tatalovich and Schier 1993). However, these findings are not universal.…”

Section: Descriptive and Partisan Representationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Politics and Morality in State Abortion Policy

Kreitzer

2015

State Politics Policy Q.

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The number and variety of state policies regulating abortion each year is increasing. Opponents of abortion adopted a strategy of "legal but inaccessible" that has resulted in the passage of more than 700 state laws since the early 1990s. Despite being a very active area of policy making, we lack a coherent explanation for the proliferation of abortion policy. Scholars studying different policies at discrete moments in time have come to conflicting conclusions about how well theories of morality policy and representation explain abortion policy. Using an original dataset comprised of a nearuniverse of pro-and anti-abortion rights policy from 1973 to 2013, I establish the ways in which partisan control of the government and the moral preferences of constituents shape state policy. I find that anti-abortion rights policies are well explained by both theories but that pro-abortion rights policies are not well explained as a morality policy or with descriptive representation. In addition, I show the heterogeneous effect of representation across anti-abortion rights policies; Democratic women and governors decrease the probability of only certain anti-abortion rights policies.

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Section: Descriptive and Partisan Representationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Politics and Morality in State Abortion Policy

Kreitzer

2015

State Politics Policy Q.

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“…(1) was greater than .25. In addition, both Cohen and Barrilleaux (1993) and Medoff (2002) found that a state's passage of restrictive abortion laws was not a reaction to a state's abortion rates. Each of these studies found that a state's restrictive abortion policy was a function of the political strength of well-organized and highly mobilized interest groups opposed to abortion.…”

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Price, Restrictions and Abortion Demand

Medoff

2007

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…The partial derivative on the left indicates that raising the cost of abortion via reducing abortion subsidies or restricting its access (physically or legally) reduces the gains associated with it [16]. If either action is such that the gain to a PS mother who is faced with time limits is negative  , property (10) holds.…”

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Exploring the Simultaneity in Public Assistance and Abortion

Snarr¹

2013

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This paper studies the effects of time limits on abortion and welfare participation of low-income pregnant single females who may or may not have other children. In doing this, I explore the presence and nature (if it exists) of simultaneity in abortion and welfare participation. The results indicate that time limits, childcare and abortion subsidies, and public assistance payments are linked to abortion. In addition, the results indicate time limits simultaneously reduce welfare enrollments and increase abortion among low-income childless single pregnant females, and trigger abortion and shorter stays on welfare of low-income pregnant mothers. Thus, future empirical work should account for simultaneity of abortion and welfare participation.

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The Determinants and Impact of State Abortion Restrictions

Cited by 48 publications

References 8 publications

Politics and Morality in State Abortion Policy

Politics and Morality in State Abortion Policy

Price, Restrictions and Abortion Demand

Exploring the Simultaneity in Public Assistance and Abortion

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