Association of State Gestational Age Limit Abortion Laws With Infant Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A growing number of state legislatures have passed laws that restrict access to abortion care after a specified gestational age (gestational age limit laws). The impact of these laws on maternal and child population health outcomes and inequities is unknown. The objective of this study is to determine whether states that implement gestational age limit laws experience subsequent changes in rates of infant mortality.

Methods

Using U.S. population‒based data from the National Center for Health Statistics Linked Infant Birth-Death Files (2005-2017), difference-in-differences models were estimated using multivariable linear regressions to compare the trends in infant mortality (all-cause and cause-specific rates) in states with gestational age limit laws with the tr

SUBMITTER: Karletsos D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8608731 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature