Andersen, Martin
[Verfasser:in]
;
Bryan, Sylvia
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Slusky, David
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]National Bureau of Economic Research
COVID-19 Surgical Abortion Restriction Did Not Reduce Visits to Abortion Clinics
Erschienen:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Erschienen in:NBER working paper series ; no. w28058
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1 Online-Ressource; illustrations (black and white)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.3386/w28058
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Beschreibung:
Due to COVID-19, 33 states banned elective medical procedures, and 13 of these states included surgical abortions. We collected street addresses of abortion clinics and linked them to SafeGraph's data on counts of visitors. We found a 32 percent decrease in clinics visits in February-May of 2020 compared to 2019. States that banned elective procedures saw an additional 23 percent decrease in visits. However, there was no significant additional decrease in the states that explicitly banned surgical abortions. We estimate that the decrease in foot traffic over these four months reduced abortions by 9 percent in 2020 relative to 2019