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Effects of restricted public funding for legal abortions: A second look

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  • Selik, R.M.
  • Cates Jr., W.
  • Tyler Jr., C.W.

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At hospitals in three cities where public funding for legal abortions had been restricted, the authors interviewed the records of women with complications of all types of abortions. They compared the number of complications in the year before funding restriction with the number in the following year, during restriction. For complications of illegal and spontaneous abortions, they found no significant change in either the number and proportion of publicly funded hospitalizations. For complications of legal abortions, they found a decrease in both the number and proportion of publicly funded hospitalizations. For poor women, it appears that restriction of public funding for legal abortions has not markedly increased the number of illegal abortions, but has reduced the number of legal abortions, especially those at later gestational ages, which would have cost more and been at greater risk of complications.

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  • Selik, R.M. & Cates Jr., W. & Tyler Jr., C.W., 1981. "Effects of restricted public funding for legal abortions: A second look," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 71(1), pages 77-81.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.71.1.77_4
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.71.1.77
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