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Regulating Abortion: The Politics of US Abortion Policy by political scientists and public health experts Deborah R McFarlane and Wendy L Hansen documents the evolution of the disparate state-level regulations of abortion care. Despite both medication and surgical induced abortions being safe procedures, the authors analyze the passage of state laws that step-by-step limited both the supply of and access to abortion care. —Lancet

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Deborah R. McFarlane, DrPH, is a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico. She is the coauthor of The Politics of Fertility Control: Family Planning and Abortion Policies in the American States and the editor of Global Population and Reproductive Health. She received her DrPH from the University of Texas, her MPA from Harvard University, and her MPH from the University of Michigan. Wendy L. Hansen is a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses broadly on public policy and government regulation, including such areas as voting behavior, campaign finance, reparations, and refugee integration, with an emphasis on econometric modeling of government, corporate and individual level decision-making. She received her BA from Lawrence University and her PhD from the California Institute of Technology.

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