TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jacobson,Mireille
AU  - Royer,Heather
TI  - Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16603
PY  - 2010
Y2  - December 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16603
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16603.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Mireille Jacobson
RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
Tel: 301/393-0411, x7141
E-Mail: jacobson@nber.org

Heather Royer
Department of Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara
2127 North Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: 805/893-3797
Fax: 805/893-8830
E-Mail: royer@econ.ucsb.edu
AB  - Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has affected providers’ decisions to perform abortions and women’s decisions about whether and where to terminate a pregnancy. We find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the overall effect of the violence is much smaller.
ER  -