Abstract Context In 2012, Utah became the first state to enact a 72‐hour waiting period for
abortion. Despite debate about the law's potential effects, research has not examined …

Purpose To assess the impact of Utah's 2012 law increasing the mandatory abortion waiting
period from 24 to 72 hours. Methods This paper includes two assessments of this change:(1) …

Background More than one-half of US states now have laws requiring women to wait at least
24 hours between receiving information about abortion and the actual abortion procedure …

Purpose This paper examines how Utah's two-visit requirement and 72-hour waiting period
influence women's certainty about their decision to have an abortion. Procedures This study …

Abstract Objectives Although California is a state with supportive abortion policies, recent
evidence suggests people may still encounter barriers to obtaining timely abortion care. To …

Context Recent years have seen the introduction of state bills seeking to ban abortions after
20 weeks, but little empirical data exist on who is affected when such bans become law …

Background Legislative and judicial procedures related to banning abortion after 6 weeks of
gestation in Ohio occurred from November 2018 to July 2019. These activities could have …

Objective To assess the association of clinician referral with decision-to-abortion time. Study
design We conducted a cross-sectional survey of women seeking abortion at all three …

Abstract The State of Texas began enforcement of the Woman's Right to Know (WRTK) Act
on January 1, 2004. The law requires that all abortions at or after 16 weeks' gestation be …

METHODS We obtained the data for this study from 2 sources, the University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF) Turnaway Study and the Guttmacher Institute's Abortion Provider …