TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Farin, Sherajum Monira
AU  - Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren
AU  - Pesko, Michael
        TI  - The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality
        PY  - 2022/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15657
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15657
        AB  - Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-40%, with 113 non-white maternal deaths averted nationally in the first year abortion became legal. We also find that early state-level legalizations were crucial, and more influential than the Roe v. Wade decision itself.
        KW  - maternal health
KW  - Roe v. Wade
KW  - maternal mortality
KW  - legal abortion
KW  - abortion
        ER  -