Regulating abortion
Subtitle: impact on patients and providers in Texas
By: Silvie Colman, Theodore J. Joyce
Contributors: Joyce, Theodore J.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15825; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15825.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  The state of Texas began enforcement of the Woman's Right to Know (WRTK) Act on January 1, 2004.  The law requires that all abortions at 16 weeks gestation or later be performed in an ambulatory surgical center (ASC).  In the month the law went into effect, not one of Texas's 54 non-hospital abortion providers met the requirements of a surgical center.  The effect was immediate and dramatic.  The number of abortions performed in Texas at 16 weeks gestation or later dropped 88 %, from 3642 in 2003 to 446 in 2004, while the number of residents who left the state for a late abortion almost quadrupled.  By 2006, an ASC had opened in 4 major cities down from 9 in 2003 but the abortion rate 16 weeks or more gestation remained 50 percent below its pre-Act level.  Regulations of abortion providers that require new facilities or costly renovations could have profound effects on the market for second trimester abortions"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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