Quantifying disparities in access to public-sector abortion based on legislative differences within the Mexico City Metropolitan Area

In the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, only women in the city center have local access to legal first-trimester abortion. We quantify how this legislative discrepancy affects access to legal, public-sector abortion across the metropolitan area. In this observational study, we used a dataset represent...

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Veröffentlicht in:Contraception (Stoneham) 2019-03, Vol.99 (3), p.160-164
Hauptverfasser: Friedman, Joseph, Saavedra-Avendaño, Biani, Schiavon, Raffaela, Alexander, Lily, Sanhueza, Patricio, Rios-Polanco, Ranulfo, Garcia-Martinez, Laura, Darney, Blair G.
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Zusammenfassung:In the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, only women in the city center have local access to legal first-trimester abortion. We quantify how this legislative discrepancy affects access to legal, public-sector abortion across the metropolitan area. In this observational study, we used a dataset representing 67.2% of all abortions occurring between 2010 and 2012 in Mexico City's public abortion program and census population data. We calculate utilization rates for 75 municipalities in the metropolitan area for 2010–2012. We compare utilization between municipalities with and without local legal access, adjusting for differences in sociodemographic drivers of abortion demand. We explore the effects of local abortion legality, travel time and socioeconomic status (SES). Women who had to travel into the city center for legal abortions used services at only 18.6% (95% CI 13.3%–33.0%) of the expected rate if they had local access, adjusting for sociodemographic factors. After controlling for travel time and SES, women who lived where abortion is illegal had a 58.6% (95% CI 21.5%–78.1%) reduction in access, and each additional 15 min of travel further reduced access by 33.7% (95% CI 18.2%–46.3%). Women who travel to seek legal abortions are more likely to have completed secondary education compared to other reproductive age women in their municipality (p = 
ISSN:0010-7824
1879-0518
DOI:10.1016/j.contraception.2018.11.012