State-Level Variation in Abortion Stigma and Women and Men's Abortion Underreporting in the USA.

ABSTRACT: Abortion is highly stigmatized in most settings and severely underreported in demographic surveys. In the USA, variation in the context of abortion between states may influence respondents' exposure to abortion stigma and create geographic variation in their likelihood of disclosing abortion in surveys. We used restricted geographic data from the 2006-2010 and 2011-2015 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to investigate the association between abortion reporting in the USA and state-level structural factors that may influence respondents' experience of abortion stigma. At the aggregate level, we compared the weighted number of abortions women reported in the NSFG to abortion counts derived from abortion provider censuses and test for variation in underreporting by state-level structura

SUBMITTER: Maddow-Zimet I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547795 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature