Fri, May 8, 2020
Two new studies from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project show that increased barriers to abortion in Texas disproportionately harm Latinx and low-income people, as well as those who live far from abortion facilities.
“Legislative restrictions on abortion are harmful overall and exacerbate the existing health disparities faced by certain populations, creating an environment in which one group is more likely to experience later abortion, unintended childbirth, and an inability to achieve personal fertility desires compared to another group,” says Vinita Goyal an obstetrician-gynecologist and research investigator at TxPEP. “Our research clearly shows that populations within the state do not have equal access to abortion—including medication abortion—and suggests that the ongoing impacts of the recent executive order will fall unevenly on Hispanic and low-income groups, placing them at greater risk for potentially worse health outcomes.”
Read the studies in Contraception and American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.