Amy N Addante, David L Eisenberg, Mark C Valentine, Jennifer Leonard, Karen E Joynt Maddox, Mark H Hoofnagle
OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between abortion restrictions and maternal mortality in the United States. STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective study examining maternal mortality in the United States from 1995 to 2017. We used the Global Health Data Exchange and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER databases to extract maternal mortality data for all 50 states for each year from 1995 to 2017. We categorized states as restrictive, neutral, or protective of abortion access according to policy information published by the Guttmacher Institute...
November 2021: Contraception