Restricting medicaid funds for abortions: Projections of excess mortality for women of childbearing age

D.B. Petitti and W. Cates

American Journal of Public Health, 1977, vol. 67, issue 9, 860-862

Abstract: Over the past two years there have been several legislative and judicial challenges to public payment for legal abortion services. If successful, the restriction of public funds for abortion could result in excess mortality for women of childbearing age in three ways. First, additional deaths from pregnancy and childbirth would occur if women who would have had an abortion carry the pregnancy to term. Second, excess deaths would result if these women seek an abortion from a less safe, nonlegal source, or if they attempt to induce an abortion in themselves. Third, additional deaths related to legal abortion would occur if women delay the procedure while seeking another source of funds. In this paper, the authors project the number of excess deaths of women of childbearing age which might result from each of these alternatives.

Date: 1977
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