Does information about abortion safety affect Texas voters' opinions about restrictive laws? A randomized study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective was to assess whether information about abortion safety and awareness of abortion laws affect voters' opinions about medically unnecessary abortion regulations.

Study design

Between May and June 2016, we randomized 1200 Texas voters to receive or not receive information describing the safety of office-based abortion care during an online survey about abortion laws using simple random assignment. We compared the association between receiving safety information and awareness of recent restrictions and beliefs that ambulatory surgical center (ASC) requirements for abortion facilities and hospital admitting privileges requirements for physicians would make abortion safer. We used Poisson regression, adjusting for political affiliation and views on abortio

SUBMITTER: White K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5670017 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature