Unintended Pregnancies, Restrictive Abortion Laws, and Abortion Demand

Table 2

Regression coefficients of abortion cost variables on abortion demand.

Restrictive abortion law	Dependent variable
	Abortion ratio (1)	Abortion rate (2)
Abortion price	−1.595 (2.23)**	−.142 (2.85)***
No medicaid funding	−121.591 (1.91)*	−10.731 (2.18)**
Parental involvement law	−145.983 (2.73)***	−10.179 (2.44)**
Mandatory counseling law	41.227 (.92)	1.187 (.32)
Two-visit law	−73.466 (1.42)	−3.378 (.85)
𝑅^2	.78	.67

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