Unwanted pregnancy represents a major cost of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in a number of states in … 1969 and 1970 (and nationally in 1973), this cost was reduced. We predict that abortion legalization generated incentives … for Disease Control data on the incidence of gonorrhea and syphilis by state, we test the hypothesis that abortion …

Laws requiring minors to seek parental consent or to notify a parent prior to obtaining an abortion raise the cost of …

Laws requiring minors to seek parental consent or to notify a parent prior to obtaining an abortion raise the cost of …

The risk of an unwanted pregnancy represents one of the major costs of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in …), this cost was reduced as women gained the option of terminating an unwanted pregnancy. We predict that abortion … legalize abortion lead to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. We find that gonorrhea and syphilis incidences are …

Most industrialized countries have increased access to abortion over the past 30 years. Economic theory predicts that … abortion laws affect sexual behavior since they change the marginal cost of having risky sex. We use gonorrhea incidence as a … 1980-2000, we estimate the impact of abortion law reform on risky sex. Compared to the most restrictive legislation that …

Background: While induced abortion is considered to be illegal and socially unacceptable in Nigeria, it is still … practiced by many women in the country. Poor family planning and unsafe abortion practices have daunting effects on maternal … major factor in this trend is the high incidence of abortion in the country. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to …

problems. Our findings imply that mental health concerns cannot be used to justify restrictive abortion policies. Moreover …

problems. Our findings imply that mental health concerns cannot be used to justify restrictive abortion policies. Moreover …