Designing Abortion Policy: Target Populations, Policy Tools, and the Politics of Benefit and Burden

• In Event: Abortion, Women, and Public Policy

Brief Overview

To understand how the design elements of abortion policy shift across place and over time, we analyze abortion bills in all 50 states between 2019 and 2025 to identify their (a) target populations, (b) policy tools, and (c) enforcement mechanisms.

Authors

• Anna M Crawford, University of Colorado Denver

• Emma Lander Scheetz, University of Colorado Denver

• Giulia Fornaro, Bocconi University