The Research
What it is
The Patterns in Abortion Utilization in Ohio and Surrounding States project uses facility-level monthly data, abortion patient chart review, and secondary data to understand changes across time and geography in abortion utilization in Ohio, surrounding states, and across the country. We contextualize these changes within state and federal abortion policy changes, with particular attention toward disparities for structurally disadvantaged people.
Why It's Important
Collecting, collating, and analyzing the data from OPEN’s Patterns in Abortion Utilization in Ohio and Surrounding States project is foundational in many analyses about abortion access and related policies. Trusted relationships with clinics and community groups allow the OPEN team to gather primary data otherwise inaccessible to researchers, and we act as an intermediary sharing data with SFP’s #WeCount effort.
Our Papers
- Abortion Access in Ohio's Changing Legislative Context, 2010-2018
- Abortion Travel within the United States: An Observational Study of Cross-State Movement to Obtain Abortion Care in 2017
- How Ohio’s Proposed Abortion Bans Would Impact Travel Distance to Access Abortion Care
- Abortion in Indiana: an analysis of abortion-related laws and concurrent patterns inabortion incidence from 2010-2019
- Kentucky’s Abortion Landscape, 2010 to 2019: An analysis of Pre-Dobbs abortion disparities in a rural, restrictive state
- COVID-19 and abortion in the Ohio River Valley: A case study of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia
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