Travelling for Rights

Completed

• Conditions: Pregnancy Termination
• Interventions: Other: Change in Texas Law

• Registration Number: NCT03258463
• Lead Sponsor: University of New Mexico

Brief Summary

This will be a retrospective cohort study comparing women obtaining an abortion in New Mexico and living in Texas and women obtaining an abortion in New Mexico and living in New Mexico .

Detailed Description

This will be a retrospective cohort study comparing women obtaining an abortion in New Mexico and living in Texas and women obtaining an abortion in New Mexico and living in New Mexico in two different time periods (time period #1 is from January 1 2012-December 31 2012 and time period #2 is from May 1 2014-April 30 2015. Our exposure is a state in which a woman lives in (New Mexico or Texas). Our intervention is the change in Texan laws occurring from July 2013-January 2014.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-02-10
• Study First Submitted: 2017-08-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-08-21
• Study First Posted: 2017-08-23
• Primary Completion: 2018-08-08
• Study Completion: 2020-05-30
• Status Verified: 2023-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-05-03
• Last Update Posted: 2023-05-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 650

Inclusion Criteria

• Women obtaining an induced abortion at one of the following clinics:

University of New Mexico's Center for Reproductive Health (UNM CRH), Planned Parenthood - Albuquerque Surgical Center or Southwestern Women's Options.

• Women residing in Texas or New Mexico. -Women obtaining an induced abortion between January 1 2012-

Exclusion Criteria

• No chart available for data extraction
• Gestational age at time of abortion initiation ≥ 24 weeks gestation as determined by ultrasound imaging.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Time Period 2	Change in Texas Law	Women who obtained an abortion from May 1 2014-April 30 2015.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of women from Texas travelling to NM, to obtain an abortion.	2012-2015	The primary objective of this study is to determine whether the proportion of Texan women obtaining an induced abortion in New Mexico increased between time period #1 and time period #2.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of New Mexico; 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States