Texas' 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Pregnancy and Changes in Live Births

Suzanne O Bell; Elizabeth A Stuart; Alison Gemmill

doi:10.1001/jama.2023.12034

Texas' 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Pregnancy and Changes in Live Births

JAMA. 2023 Jul 18;330(3):281-282. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.12034.

Authors

Suzanne O Bell¹, Elizabeth A Stuart², Alison Gemmill¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This study evaluates changes in the number of births in Texas after passage of Texas’ Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which bans abortions as early as 5 weeks’ gestation.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Abortion, Induced* / legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion, Induced* / statistics & numerical data
Abortion, Legal* / legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion, Legal* / statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Jurisprudence
Live Birth* / epidemiology
Pregnancy / statistics & numerical data
Pregnancy Trimester, First
Texas / epidemiology
United States

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Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding