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Growing set of state abortion restrictions visualized
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Sep 16, 2011 03:09am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Althea Webber, Margaret Moslander |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 14, 2011 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With these data visualizations, Remapping Debate identifies all of the many restrictions on abortion that have been legislated in various states. Various pro-choice advocates contacted by Remapping Debate focused on “targeted regulation of abortion providers,” or “TRAP” laws, as the restrictions with significant impact, although they were unable to provide specific studies on the extent of the impact.
Beyond TRAP laws, Elizabeth Nash, a public policy associate at the Guttmacher Institute, cited a study done by the Institute indicating that waiting period laws, which require women to take at least two trips to a clinic in order to obtain an abortion, have a “real impact.” The study, done in Mississippi, found that following the enactment of a waiting period law, “the actual number of abortions performed in Mississippi was 22 percent lower than expected based on previous years.”
On the anti-abortion side, Carrie Gordon Earll, the senior director of CitizenLink, the advocacy arm of Focus on the Family, and attorneys at Americans United for Life said that studies they relied on identified parental notification and consent laws as most effective at reducing abortion rates.
The chart below is organized simply by the total number of abortion restrictions in a state (coded by category, with more than one restriction possible in each category). |
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