The effect of legalization and public funding of abortion on neonatal mortality: An intervention analysis

Michael Miller, C. Stokes and Rex Warland

Population Research and Policy Review, 1988, vol. 7, issue 1, 79-92

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of the legalization of abortion on neonatal mortality in the United States. Monthly time series data are used to estimate intervention models separately for the U.S. as a whole and for the States of New York and South Carolina. Legalization of abortion in 1973 is found to have no discernible impact on national neonatal mortality rates. However, results from New York and South Carolina, states in which accessibility and public funding of abortion differed markedly, suggest that abortion is significantly related to declines in neonatal mortality, particularly among nonwhites. The magnitude and timing of such impacts varied between races and states. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

Date: 1988
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