Association Between Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services and the Abortion Rate in Texas, 2010-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate how the availability of contraceptive services was associated with a change in the abortion rate before and after Texas' legislative changes to the family planning budget in 2011 and abortion access in 2013.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, we obtained 2010 and 2015 data on contraceptive provision (number of publicly funded clinics and number of contraceptive clients served per 1,000 reproductive-aged women) from the Guttmacher Institute and county-level abortion data from the Texas Department of State Health Services. We categorized counties as having an abortion rate that increased or declined less than the national rate between 2010 and 2015 ( low-decline counties ) compared with those having an abortion rate that declined equal to or greater t

SUBMITTER: Madison AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9858333 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature