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Michael New

Associate professor, Ave Maria University; Assoc. Scholar, Charlotte Lozier Institute

Michael J. New is an associate professor of economics at Ave Maria University and an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

Latest Columns

Health

Inaccurate research and reports that Planned Parenthood cuts caused maternal mortality spike

By Michael New, April 23, 2018

A new study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology finds that data coding errors in previous research misclassified a number of deceased women as pregnant, and therefore, the actual maternal mortality rate in Texas is less than half of what previous reports indicated.

Health

Unintended pregnancies in Texas are not at crisis level

By Michael New, July 19, 2017

Texas has seen some important abortion policy changes in recent years. The Texas Legislature voted to remove Planned Parenthood from the state family planning program in 2011. Additionally, after new abortion clinic regulations were signed into law in 2013, a significant number of abortion facilities in Texas closed.