Abstract
How responsive are political lawmakers to an abortion issue that is potentially less salient to the public or in the media? Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (or TRAP) laws impose physical plant and personnel regulations and requirements on abortion providers that exceed those imposed on other comparable health care providers or outpatient medical facilities. Using event history analysis, this article examines the determinants of the enactment by states of a TRAP law over the period 1974 to 2008. The empirical results find that the polarized ideological positions of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party on the issue of abortion, in conjunction with institutional control of state government, has a statistically significant impact on the enactment of a TRAP law in the expected direction.
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