Contraception Deserts: The Politics and Policy of Reproductive Healthcare Resources

• In Event: Politics and Policy in the American States

Brief Overview

This paper centers a concept and measure called "contraception deserts." This paper depicts and measures the geography of access to publicly-funded, evidenced-based family planning resources across several states.

Authors

• Candis Watts Smith, Penn State University

• Rebecca Kreitzer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill