Research Article

Unintended Pregnancies, Restrictive Abortion Laws, and Abortion Demand

Table 1

Summary statistics.

VariableMean Standard deviation

Abortion rate of unintended pregnancies 16.07 7.43
Abortion ratio of unintended pregnancies304.00108.77
Abortion price446.20103.08
Labor force participation 83.84 2.85
Married 64.534.13
Education 82.354.40
Evangelical Christians 15.4013.68
TANF 336.46 135.92
NARAL antiabortion attitudes 25.5014.43
No Medicaid funding .66 .47
Parental involvement law .64 .48
Mandatory counseling law .48 .50
Two-visit law .10 .30