We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …

(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl … abortion. We find no evidence of greater postnatal neglect of girls once more girls are born. Our findings show that politician … preferences over abortion influence abortion-related outcomes, most likely through greater enforcement of laws against sex …

reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the …

This article examines the hypothesis that having daughters polarises male politicians' attitudes toward abortion rights …. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right … in a model predicting that fathers with paternalistic preferences adopt a more polarised political position on abortion …

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 …