Geographic Realities of Abortion Access in Texas: Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Texas Senate Bill 8 with Mobile Phone Data.

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Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-05 DOI:10.1007/s11113-025-09948-0

Jessica Miller, Guangqing Chi

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Abstract

Restrictive abortion policies have generated reductions in abortion access, increased travel distance to abortion clinics as a result of clinic closures, and produced declines in maternal health outcomes. This study explores the effects of Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8), the most restrictive bill prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, on abortion access in Texas. We used a difference-in-differences approach to explore the heterogeneous effects of SB8 on abortion access for communities of varying socioeconomic statuses and travel distances using 16 months of SafeGraph Inc. mobile phone pattern data for 21 Texas and four Oklahoma abortion clinics between January 1, 2021, and April 30, 2022. Implementation of SB8 was associated with 34% fewer abortion clinic visits in Texas than in Oklahoma. The effects of SB8 on access to abortion care across state borders had a disproportionately greater impact on women in low-income communities. This study provides further evidence of the discriminatory impacts of SB8 in Texas.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11113-025-09948-0.

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德克萨斯州堕胎准入的地理现实：利用移动电话数据探索德克萨斯州参议院8号法案的异质效应。

限制性堕胎政策导致堕胎机会减少，诊所关闭导致前往堕胎诊所的路程增加，产妇保健结果下降。本研究探讨了德克萨斯州参议院法案8 （SB8）的影响，这是在推翻罗伊诉韦德案之前最严格的法案，对德克萨斯州堕胎准入的影响。我们采用差异中的差异方法，利用SafeGraph公司在2021年1月1日至2022年4月30日期间对21个德克萨斯州和4个俄克拉何马州堕胎诊所的16个月手机模式数据，探讨了SB8对不同社会经济地位和旅行距离社区堕胎获取的异质性影响。实施SB8与德克萨斯州堕胎诊所就诊人数比俄克拉荷马州减少34%有关。SB8对跨州获得堕胎护理的影响对低收入社区妇女的影响更大。这项研究进一步证明了SB8在德克萨斯州的歧视性影响。补充资料：在线版本提供补充资料，网址为10.1007/s11113-025-09948-0。

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