The Battle Over Reproductive Rights in Texas: Did Research Matter?

Joe Potter, Professor of Sociology, Population Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin

Joe Potter’s interests lie in the areas of reproductive health, population and development, and demographic estimation. He is the Principal Investigator of the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, an eight-year foundation funded investigation to evaluate the impact of the reproductive health legislation enacted by the Texas Legislature. Through June 2012, he was also P.I. of the Border Contraceptive Access Study (BCAS), a seven-year project on oral contraceptive use along the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas funded by NICHD.