Unintended Pregnancies, Restrictive Abortion Laws, and Abortion Demand

Table 3

Regression coefficients of abortion cost variables on fetal losses.

Abortion cost variables	Dependent variable
	Fetal loss ratio (1)	Fetal loss rate (2)
Abortion price	.1125 (2.01)**	−.0102 (2.11)**
No Medicaid funding	2.4665 (.45)	−1.1462 (2.23)**
Parental involvement law	15.0929 (3.19)***	−.6471 (1.55)
Mandatory counseling law	−1.0463 (.24)	.1308 (.31)
Two-visit law	17.4248 (3.11)***	.5056 (1.55)
𝑅^2	.81	.67

Absolute value of 𝑡-statistics in parentheses; *𝑃<.10, **𝑃<.05,***𝑃<.01. Fetal loss ratio is the number of fetal losses of unintended pregnancies per 1000 unintended pregnancies. Fetal loss rate is the number of fetal losses of unintended pregnancies per 1000 women of childbearing ages 15–44 years.