Public Health Researchers. ● This research demonstrates the importance for public health researchers to expand the methodologies and data sources used to have a greater effect on public policy. ● It is critical to understand how legislators use our work in building their political strategies and arguments in the fight to protect access to safe and legal abortion. ● By developing more thorough understandings of what evidence and political strategies are most persuasive and compelling for legislators, public health researchers can produce more relevant and persuasive work for abortion rights advocates to use; similarly counter arguments against policies designed to undermine abortion rights may be gleaned. ● Analysis of the types of argumentation favored by legislators as conducted in this research shows what legislators in favor of abortion access consider important.
