Abortion Return Rates and Wait Times Before and After Texas' Executive Order Banning Abortion During COVID-19.
Objectives. To assess the associations between the executive order that Texas governor Greg Abbott issued on March 22, 2020, postponing procedures deemed not immediately medically necessary, and patients' access to abortion care in Texas. Methods. We used 17 515 individual-level patient records from...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 114; no. 10; pp. 1013 - 1024 |
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