ANSIRH research

ANSIRH’s Evaluation of Restrictions Project aims to examine the effects on women of state-level abortion restrictions and to identify strategies to mitigate the negative impacts. The project started in 2013 and has so far conducted research in ten states and evaluated the effects of a variety of restrictions. We continue to identify states and restrictions to evaluate.

On January 1, 2014, California enacted legislation (AB 154) culminating a decade worth of work to expand the pool of safe, qualified professionals authorized to provide early abortion care.  

The Public Health Approaches to Abortion project is a series of projects that aim to ground the public and policy debate about abortion regulation and access in scientific evidence and public health principles. Collectively, these projects serve to re-center scientific evidence and public health professional expertise in discussions of abortion patient safety and health department engagement with abortion.

In 2011, and again in 2013, the Texas Legislature passed sweeping legislation impacting reproductive health in Texas, which has a population of 5.4 million women of reproductive age.