Texas women’s decisions and experiences regarding self-managed abortion

Table 1 Characteristics of 2012 and 2014 Texas abortion client survey respondents by attempt to self-manage abortion for this pregnancy

	Total		Attempted to self-manage an abortion for this pregnancy				Fisher’s exact
			No		Yes		Fisher’s exact
	n	row %	n	row %	n	row %
Total	721	100	671	93.1	50	6.9
Year							0.77
2012	303	100	281	92.7	22	7.3
2014	418	100	390	93.3	28	6.7
	n	col %	n	col %	n	col %
Age (n = 717)							0.60
18–24 years old	338	47.1	312	46.8	26	52.0
25+ years old	379	52.9	355	53.2	24	48.0
Race/Ethnicity (n = 712)							0.04
Black	141	19.8	138	20.8	3	6.1
White	203	28.5	186	28.1	17	34.7
Latina	298	41.9	276	41.6	22	44.9
Other	70	9.8	63	9.5	7	14.3
Language (n = 713)							0.20
English Only	568	79.7	532	80.2	36	72.0
Spanish, Spanish and English, Other	145	20.3	131	19.8	14	28.0
Residence (n = 665)
Border county	57	8.6	50	8.1	7	15.6	0.08
Non-Border County	593	89.2	557	89.8	36	80.0
Outside of TX	15	2.3	13	2.1	2	4.4
Country of birth (n = 636)							0.20
US	561	88.2	522	88.3	39	86.7
Mexico, Latin America or the Caribbean	53	8.3	47	8.0	6	13.3
Other country	22	3.5	22	3.7	0	0.0
Gestational age (n = 712)							0.81
< 7 weeks	311	43.7	291	43.9	20	40.8
7 to 12 weeks	328	46.1	304	45.9	24	49
13 to 15 weeks	45	6.3	41	6.2	4	8.2
16 or more weeks	28	3.9	27	4.1	1	2
Level of ease/difficult traveling to clinic (n = 715)							0.31
Easy	543	75.9	508	76.4	35	70.0
Hard	172	24.1	157	23.6	15	30.0
Previous abortion (n = 693)							0.36
No	411	59.3	379	58.8	32	66.7
Yes	282	40.7	266	41.2	16	33.3