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- Title
The impact of requirements for parental consent on minors' abortions in Mississippi.
- Authors
Henshaw, Stanley K.
- Abstract
Mississippi data for 1993 indicate that the state's new parental consent requirement had Yule effect on the abortion rate among minors. In a comparison of Mississippi residents who had abortions during the five months before and the six months after the law went into effect, the ratio of minors to adults who sought abortions in the state declined by 13%, a decrease offset by a 32% increase in the ratio of monitors to adults who obtained abortions out of state. There was also a 28% drop in the ratio of minors to adults from other states who had abortions in Mississippi. The parental consent requirement increased by 19% the ratio of minors to adults who obtained their procedure after 12 weeks of gestation.
- Subjects
MISSISSIPPI; ABORTION; BIRTH control; PARENTAL influences; MINORS; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 3, p120
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2136110