Family planning policy in the United States: the converging politics of abortion and contraception.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Following decades of mainstream bipartisan support, contraception has reemerged as a controversial political issue in the United States. At the same time, opposition to abortion has intensified. State legislatures across the country have enacted highly visible policies limiting access to family planning. Perhaps the most striking example occurred in 2011 in Texas, when legislators instituted unprecedented requirements on abortion providers and cut public funding for contraception by two thirds. Yet, despite popular interpretations of this phenomenon as a simple byproduct of increasing partisan divisions, little is understood about the factors underlying such policy shifts.

Study design

We fit Bayesian ideal-point models to analyze correlation patterns in record-vo

SUBMITTER: Aiken AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4842098 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature