Analyzing the Effect of State Legislation on the Incidence of Abortion Among Minors

Analysis of a comprehensive dataset of minor abortion rates fromover 40 states over a span of 15 years indicates that parentalinvolvement legislation and other types of pro-life laws arecorrelated with reductions in the incidence of abortion amongminors. A set of natural experiments provides further evidence ofthe effectiveness of pro-life legislation.

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