COVID-19 surgical abortion restriction did not reduce visits to abortion clinics
Working Paper Series National Bureau of Economic Research
; 31(50), 2020.
Article
in English
| GIM | ID: covidwho-1789338
ABSTRACT
Due to COVID-19, 33 states banned elective medical procedures, and 13 of these states included surgical abortions. We collected street addresses of abortion clinics and linked them to SafeGraph's data on counts of visitors. We found a 32 percent decrease in clinics visits in February-May of 2020 compared to 2019. States that banned elective procedures saw an additional 23 percent decrease in visits. However, there was no significant additional decrease in the states that explicitly banned surgical abortions. We estimate that the decrease in foot traffic over these four months reduced abortions by 9 percent in 2020 relative to 2019.
coronavirus disease 2019; pandemics; abortion; health centres; surgery; traffic; human diseases; viral diseases; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; man; Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirinae; Coronaviridae; Nidovirales; positive-sense ssRNA Viruses; ssRNA Viruses; RNA Viruses; viruses; Homo; Hominidae; primates; mammals; vertebrates; Chordata; animals; eukaryotes; SARS-CoV-2; health centers; viral infections
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Working Paper Series National Bureau of Economic Research
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2020
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