Association of Texas Senate Bill 8 With Requests for Self-managed Medication Abortion

Abigail R A Aiken; Jennifer E Starling; James G Scott; Rebecca Gomperts

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.1122

Association of Texas Senate Bill 8 With Requests for Self-managed Medication Abortion

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Feb 1;5(2):e221122. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.1122.

Authors

Abigail R A Aiken¹, Jennifer E Starling², James G Scott³, Rebecca Gomperts⁴

Affiliations

¹ Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.
² Mathematica Policy Research Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.
⁴ Women on Web, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines whether the passage of Texas Senate Bill 8 was associated with an increase in requests for self-managed medication abortion.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Abortion, Induced* / legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion, Induced* / methods
Abortion, Induced* / statistics & numerical data
Contraceptives, Postcoital
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Patient Acceptance of Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
Pregnancy
Self-Management / statistics & numerical data*
Texas

Substances

Contraceptives, Postcoital

Grants and funding

P2C HD042849/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States