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PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES

Abortion, Welfare, and Medicaid

Evans MI. Gleicher E, Feingold E, et al. "The Fiscal Impact of the Medicaid Abortion Funding Ban in Michigan." Obstetrics and Gynecology 82, no. 4 (1993): 555-560. Henshaw SK, Wallisch L. "Medicaid Cut-off and Abortion Services for the Poor." Family Planning Perspectives 16 (1984): 171-172.

Matthews S, Ribar D, Wilhelm M. "The Effects of Economic Conditions and Access to Reproductive Health Services on State Abortion Rates and Birthrates." Family Planning Perspectives 29 (1997): 52-60.

Weiner J, Bernhardt BA. "A Survey of State Medicaid Policies for Coverage of Abortion and Prenatal Diagnostic Procedures." American Journal of Public Health 80, no. 6 (1990): 717-720.

Coverage of Contraception

Sollom T, Gold RB, Saul R. "Public Funding for Contraceptive, Sterilization and Abortion Services, 1994." Family Planning Perspectives 28 (1996): 166-173.

Unintended Pregnancies in the United States

Brown SS, Eisenberg L (eds). The Best of Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-being of Children and Families. Institute of Medicine. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1995.

Henshaw SK. "Unintended Pregnancy in the United States." Family Planning Perspectives 30 (1998): 24-29, 46.

Last updated July 19, 2000.