A Reexamination of the Effect of Antiabortion Legislation in the Post.docVIP

A Reexamination of the Effect of Antiabortion Legislation in the Post-Casey Era Marshall H. Medoff Christopher Dennis California State University, Long Beach Abstract Michael J. New, in a recent article in this journal, argues that a major reason for the decline in the incidence of abortion since the U. S. Supreme Court’s 1992 Casey decision was the increased number of antiabortion laws ( parental involvement laws and informed consent laws ( enacted at the state level. However, New’s analysis contained critical data, measurement and estimation