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Change in Distance to Nearest Facility and Abortion in Texas, 2012 to 2014

Year: 2017

Type: letter

Abstract: This Research Letter demonstrates that increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures between 2012 and 2014 were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions in Texas. Counties where the distance to the nearest facility increased 100 miles or more between 2012 and 2014 saw a 50% decline in abortions. Meanwhile, counties that did not have an abortion provider in 2014 and did not experience a change in distance to the nearest facility had essentially no change in the number of abortions.

Source: JAMA

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.17026

Authors: Daniel Grossman, Kari White, Kristine Hopkins, Joseph E. Potter

Institutions: University of California, San Francisco, University of Alabama at Birmingham, The University of Texas at Austin

Language: English

Topic: Reproductive Health and Contraception

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development