Abortion Riders: Women Living in States with Insurance Restrictions Lack Abortion Coverage Options
Data Note
Weissert W and Crary D. (2017, August 12). Texas set to restrict insurance coverage for abortion. Associated Press.
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). (2014, September 15). Health Insurance Exchanges: Coverage of Non-excepted Abortion Services by Qualified Health Plans.
Jones R and Kooistra K. (2011). Abortion Incidence and Access to Services in the United States, 2008. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health; 43(1), 41-50.
Jones R, Upadhyay U, and Weitz T. (2013). At What Cost? Payment for Abortion Care by U.S. Women. Women’s Health Issues Journal; 23(3), 173-178.
Ibid.
National Women’s Law Center (NWLC). (2012). Turning to Fairness: Insurance discrimination against women today and the Affordable Care Act.
Schaler-Haynes M, Chesnokova A, Cox C, and Feinstein M. (2012). Abortion Coverage and Health Reform: Restrictions and Options for Exchange-Based Insurance Markets. The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 15: 323.
We did not include Utah in our search because the sale of abortion riders is not permitted there.
Utah does not allow abortion riders, and Texas's ban does not go into effect until April 2018.