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This paper is a state comparative analysis of the determinants of a state's policies towards reproductive healthcare. While much of the literature focuses solely on abortion, our analysis employs a more comprehensive measure of access to reproductive healthcare. Three explanationsreligious, socioeconomic, and politicalare tested to see which has...
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... the present analysis utilizes the raw point scores for each state, rather than an ordinal ranking. Table 1 compares the Gohmann and Ohsfeldt (1994) rankings and the NARAL (2006) rankings. The Gohmann and Ohsfeldt (1994) ranking was the last academic study aimed at capturing and comparing the pro-choice/ anti-choice culture of individual states. ...
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... These studies tend to conclude that the impact of the governor's party is minimal, and that this variable is typically more important when coupled with broader party interests and partisanship control of the state legislature (Bernick 1978;Morris et al. 2019;Morris et al. 2022). On the other hand, Republican vote share is a relatively strong predictor of state restrictiveness (Greentree et al. 2012;Jelen and Wilcox 2003;Morris et al. 2022), as is Republican control of the legislature (Norrander and Wilcox 1999;Medoff 2002). Other scholars have examined the effect of the number of women in the legislature (Schecter 2001), and report that states with fewer women in state legislative bodies tend to enact more restrictive policies (Bentele et al. 2018;Caiazza 2004;Kreitzer 2015;Morris et al. 2022). ...
... Jelen and Wilcox (2003), Cook, Jelen, and Wilcox (1993), and Evans (2002) found that evangelical Protestants were much less likely to support reproductive rights than adherents of other religions; they also noted that states with large Catholic populations also tended to resist reproductive rights. On the other hand, states with larger Jewish populations tended to enact less restrictive policies (Greentree, Lombard, and Morris 2012;Morris et al. 2022). ...
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