Implications for women of Louisiana's law requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges

Contraception
S C M RobertsUshma D Upadhyay

Abstract

In 2014, Louisiana passed a law requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges. This law is temporarily on hold while a court case challenging it continues. We aimed to describe the population who would be affected if the law goes into effect and how closures of between three and five Louisiana abortion facilities would affect the distance Louisiana women would need to travel for an abortion. We abstracted patient data from three of the five Louisiana abortion care facilities in the year before the law was scheduled to take effect. We then estimated distance traveled and distances women would need to travel if clinics close. Half (53%) of women who had an abortion had no education beyond high school, most were black (62%) or white (30%), three fourths (73%) had a previous live birth, and most (89%) were having a first-trimester abortion. Seventy-nine percent resided in Louisiana and 15% in Texas. The parishes in which abortion patients resided had lower median income and higher percentage poverty than the Louisiana average. Abortion patients residing in Louisiana traveled a mean distance of 58 miles each way for an abortion. If all Louisiana facilities close, the mean distance women would need to travel woul...Continue Reading

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