We examine the long-term consequences of restricted access to abortion following a change in the Hungarian abortion law …, despite the severe restriction, still made abortion permissible for selected groups of women. We control for the compositional … to the law change, and draw causal inferences. We find that restricted access to abortion had, on average, a negative …

services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in … access to abortion and family planning services, which we leverage to understand the impact of family planning and abortion … that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 miles. Births increased 1% and contraceptive purchases rose 8% in …

significantly decreased the abortion rate by about 8 percent. Furthermore, long-term access decreased the likelihood of teenage …