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Meier, K. J., Haider-Markel, D. P., Stanislawski, A. J., & Mcfarlane, D. R. (1996). //The impact of state-level restrictions on abortion// (Vol. 33). doi:10.2307/2061763.


 * 1) Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) allowed state-level anti-abortion laws to be created.
 * 2) In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court restricted regulation of abortions occurring in the first trimester and restricted prohibition of abortion – but not regulation – in the second trimester.
 * 3) The state-level anti-abortion laws will often use one or both of these approaches: the law will increase the cost, therefore decreasing demand, or the law will put a limit on the amount of supply of the service.
 * 4) Approximately one of every four pregnancies is terminated by abortion.
 * 5) There are about a million and a half abortions every year.
 * 6) There are twenty-three different policies used on the state level throughout the United States, which are used to lower the number of abortions.
 * 7) Some state-level abortion laws were initially created just to see how the Supreme Court would handle state-level restrictions.
 * 8) Some of these laws that were passed were taken immediately to court following their creation.
 * 9) A few of these state-level abortion laws were not actually enforced – or not enforced strictly.
 * 10) None of these state-level abortion restrictive policies had no major impact on the abortion rates.
 * 11) In state-level abortion laws, a conscience clause gives physicians the ability to refuse abortions if they are opposed to it.
 * 12) The fetal experimentation part of state abortion laws prohibits the use of abortion as experimentation.
 * 13) Abortion-specific “informed consent” rules require that the pregnant woman know about the abortion and the risks of having an abortion.
 * 14) Parental consent rules require minors to gain parental consent before obtaining an abortion (or go through the court system for permission for an abortion).
 * 15) Laws dealing with parental notification require a minor's parents to be notified before they obtain an abortion.