The unintended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on abortions

Márquez‐Padilla, Fernanda; Saavedra, Biani

doi:10.1007/s00148-021-00874-x

Cited by 18 publications

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“…Therefore, it is possible that there were some negative effects of the pandemic on the artificial abortion rate. A pandemic effect of decreasing the number of abortions and the fertility rate was observed in Mexico [ 49 ], and the fertility rate also decreased during the stay-at-home period [ 50 ]. A decrease in the rates of unwanted pregnancy among single and adolescent women was pointed out as a possible factor for a decrease in the number of abortions [ 49 ].…”

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rates of adverse birth outcomes and fetal mortality in Japan: an analysis of national data from 2010 to 2022

Okui,

Nakashima

2024

BMC Public Health

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Background Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected trends of multiple health outcomes in Japan, there is a paucity of studies investigating the effect of the pandemic on adverse birth outcomes and fetal mortality. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the onset of the pandemic on the trends in adverse birth outcomes and fetal mortality using national data in Japan. Methods We used the 2010–2022 birth and fetal mortality data from the Vital Statistics in Japan. We defined the starting time of the effect of the pandemic as April 2020, and the period from January 2010 to March 2020 and that from April 2020 to December 2022 were defined as the pre- and post- pandemic period, respectively. The rates of preterm birth, term low birth weight (TLBW), small-for-gestational-age (SGA), large-for-gestational-age (LGA), spontaneous fetal mortality, and artificial fetal mortality were used as outcomes. An interrupted time series analysis was conducted using monthly time series data of the outcomes to evaluate the effects of the pandemic. In addition, a modified Poisson regression model was used to evaluate the effects of the pandemic on these outcomes using individual-level data, and the adjusted risk ratio of the effect was calculated. Results The adverse birth and fetal mortality outcomes showed a decreasing trend over the years, except for preterm birth and LGA birth rates, and SGA birth rates tended to reach their lowest values after the onset of the pandemic. The interrupted time series analysis revealed that the pandemic decreased preterm birth, TLBW, and SGA birth rates. In addition, the regression analysis revealed that the pandemic decreased the TLBW, SGA, and artificial fetal mortality rates. Conclusions Analyses performed using national data suggested that the pandemic decreased the TLBW and SGA rates in Japan.

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rates of adverse birth outcomes and fetal mortality in Japan: an analysis of national data from 2010 to 2022

Okui,

Nakashima

2024

BMC Public Health

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“…71 See, for example, https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/more-140000-us-children-lostprimary-or-secondary-caregiver-due-covid-19-pandemic, last checked 11/11/2021. 72 Evidence on adolescent pregnancy and fertility is mixed (e.g., Aassve et al, 2020Aassve et al, , 2021Marquez-Padilla and Saavedra, 2022;Alon et al, 2022). While dropping out of school might lead to pregnancy among adolescent girls, school closures and lockdowns also reduced (sexual) contacts between students.…”

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Scars of Pandemics from Lost Schooling and Experience: Aggregate Implications and Gender Differences through the Lens of COVID-19

Romer

Samaniego

Jedwab

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Pandemic shocks disrupt human capital accumulation through schooling and work experience. This study quantifies the range of the long-term economic impact of these disruptions in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on countries at different levels of development and using returns to education and experience by college status that are globally estimated using 1,084 household surveys across 145 countries. We find that: (i) Both lost schooling and experience can contribute to significant losses in global learning and output; and (ii) Developed countries may incur greater losses than developing countries, because they have more schooling to start with and higher returns to experience. In addition, the returns to education and experience are separately estimated for men and women, to explore the differential effects by gender of the COVID-19 pandemic. While we uncover gender differences in returns to education and schooling, gender differences in the impact of COVID-19 are small and short-lived, with a loss in female relative income of only 2.5 percent or less mainly due to the greater severity of the employment shock on impact. The methodology employed in this study is easily implementable for future pandemics where global data availability is initially limited.

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“…Outside of the U.S., different studies have documented the health and economic impacts of abortion policies in Norway ( 28 ), Romania ( 29 , 30 ), Eastern European countries ( 31 ), Spain ( 32 ), Mexico ( 33 , 34 ), and Israel ( 35 ). Overall, studies on the U.S. and other countries reach similar conclusions on the causal impacts of abortion policy on abortion access, abortion use, fertility, and economic outcomes.…”

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Texas Senate Bill 8 significantly reduced travel to abortion clinics in Texas

Andersen

Marsicano²,

Torres³

et al. 2023

Front. Glob. Womens Health

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The Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the United States Supreme Court has rescinded the constitutional guarantee of abortion across the United States. As a result, at least 13 states have banned abortion access with unknown effects. Using “Texas” SB8 law that similarly restricted abortions in Texas, we provide insight into how individuals respond to these restrictions using aggregated and anonymized human mobility data. We find that “Texas” SB 8 law reduced mobility near abortion clinics in Texas by people who live in Texas and those who live outside the state. We also find that mobility from Texas to abortion clinics in other states increased, with notable increases in Missouri and Arkansas, two states that subsequently enacted post-Dobbs bans. These results highlight the importance of out-of-state abortion services for women living in highly restrictive states.

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The unintended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on abortions

Cited by 18 publications

References 31 publications

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rates of adverse birth outcomes and fetal mortality in Japan: an analysis of national data from 2010 to 2022

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rates of adverse birth outcomes and fetal mortality in Japan: an analysis of national data from 2010 to 2022

Scars of Pandemics from Lost Schooling and Experience: Aggregate Implications and Gender Differences through the Lens of COVID-19

Texas Senate Bill 8 significantly reduced travel to abortion clinics in Texas

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