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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Public funding of family planning leads to moderate reductions in

underweight births and infant deaths.

AUTHORS

Donovan P

SOURCE

Family Planning Perspectives. 1995 Mar-Apr;27(2):92-3.

ABSTRACT

Pooled time-series data from 50 states in the US during 1982-88 was used to examine the impact of publicly funded

abortion and family planning services on the following outcomes: the abortion rate, the teenage birth rate, the

percentage of low birth weight infants, the percentage of premature births, the infant mortality rate, and the neonatal

mortality rate. Data on state abortion rates was obtained from the Alan Guttmacher Institute and national statistical

centers. Independent variables included the abortion public funding rate, the federal and state funding for family

planning per capita, and socioeconomic factors, the proportion Catholic, and the percentage living in a county with a

large abortion provider. The impact of abortion funding was constructed by multiplying the regression coefficients by

the funded abortion rate. The mean funded abortion rate (4.97 funded abortions per 1000 women) was used in states

that did not publicly fund abortions. Every $1.00 per capita increase in family planning expenditures was associated

with a reduction of more than one abortion per 1000 women (1.046 per 1000). Higher funding levels were also

associated with 261 fewer births per 100,000 women among women with inadequate prenatal care. There were 49

fewer low birth weight deliveries per 100,000 births, 16 fewer infant deaths per 100,000 births, and 13 fewer neonatal

deaths per 100,000 births. For each additional abortion receiving state funds, the abortion rate increased by 0.42 per

1000, but one funded abortion per 1000 women reduced teenage births by 0.67 per 100,000. For every 100,000 births,

there were 263 fewer births to women receiving inadequate prenatal care. There was a reduction of 2.4 per 100,000

births among low birth weight infants and 2.7 per 100,000 fewer premature births. In the 12 states with funding of

abortions for at least 1 year out of the 7 years, there were an additional 563,866 abortions, but 151,907 fewer teenage

births, 232,570 fewer births to women with inadequate prenatal care, 21,555 fewer low birth weight babies, and

23,928 fewer premature births. In the states without Medicaid-funded abortions, there were 503,778 fewer abortions,

but an increase of 136,499 in teenage births, of 18,453 in low birth weight deliveries, of 20,760 in premature births,

and of 201,907 in births to women with inadequate prenatal care. Family planning expenditures over the 7-year period

reduced abortions by 670,384. The results support the argument for integration of abortion and family planning

services. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 3041-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Public funding of family planning leads to moderate

reductions in underweight births and infant deaths.", is(are) Donovan P. The source of this article is "Family

Planning Perspectives. 1995 Mar-Apr;27(2):92-3.". This article was published in 1995 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 3041-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 8041

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