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Abortion Return Rates and Wait Times Before and After Texas' Executive Order Banning Abortion During COVID-19.
Am J Public Health
October 2024
Brooke Whitfield, Gracia Sierra, Klaira Lerma, Vinita Goyal, and Kari White are with the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Lauren Thaxton is with Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin. Bhavik Kumar is with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Houston, TX. Allison Gilbert is with Southwestern Women's Surgery Center, Dallas, TX.
To assess the associations between the executive order that Texas governor Greg Abbott issued on March 22, 2020, postponing procedures deemed not immediately medically necessary, and patients' access to abortion care in Texas. We used 17 515 individual-level patient records from 13 Texas abortion facilities for matched periods in 2019 and 2020 to examine differences in return rates for abortion after completion of a state-mandated ultrasound and median wait times between ultrasound and abortion visits for those who returned. Patients were less likely to return for an abortion if they had an ultrasound while the executive order was under effect (82.
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