This paper attempts to draw together what we know today about the likely effects of welfare reform on abortion and to outline promising strategies for evaluating the actual effects of the limited reforms to date and the wider reforms which are likely to follow. The paper opens with a brief...

Empirical analyses of the effect of abortion regulation on demographic and health outcomes has been hampered by the difficulty of reconstructiong what legal rules were in place in each state at a given point in time. Summarizing the results of a detailed review of the primary legal sources...