- Abortion Access in Colorado: A Status Report
(
December 2006
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DUring 2006, a joint project of AAP and Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains assessed abortion access in Colorado via surveys of Colorado physicians; this report describes the current status of abortion access in the state and the success of expanding abortion access through this joint project to date.
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- Abortion in the United States
(
January 2005
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This article
by Harper et al published in the Annual
Review of Public Health provides an overview of abortion rates and the
healthcare settings that provide abortion services, highlighting restricted
access for certain groups of women.
Link
to full text or source
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- Abortion in the United States: Incidence and Access to Services, 2005
(
January 2008
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This article by Jones et al
is a comprehensive source for data on the large scale trends in abortion rates
and care.
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source
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- Abortion May Be Legal, But Who Can Get One? The Lack of Abortion Services in Massachusetts Hospitals
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September 2003
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This report offers an overview of the importance of engaging hospitals as abortion providers nationally as well as survey data on the availability of hospital-based services in Massachusetts.
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- Abortion Services in Rural Washington State, 1983-1984 to 1993-1994: Availability and Outcomes
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January 1999
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This article by Dobie et al published in Family Planning Perspectives notes that
women in this region are traveling farther and often to obtain abortion
services and are having those procedures at a later gestational age.
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or source
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- Abortion, Repeat Unintended Pregnancy, Repeated and Misguided Government Policies
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May 2007
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This article by Cohen published in the Guttmacher Policy Review discuss the
link between policy affecting abortion and contraception and women who have had
more than one abortion, a group that are more likely to be age 30 or older and
twice as likely to already have had a child.
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or source
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- Abortions in Rural Idaho: Physicians’ Attitudes and Practices
(
October 1995
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This article by Rosenblatt et al published in The American Journal of Public Health reviews
a survey of rural Idaho
physicians’ opposition to providing abortion services, noting personal moral or
religious objections and loval community opposition.
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source
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- Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001
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January 2006
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This article by Finer and Henshaw discusses the
rate of unintended pregnancy among certain groups, noting higher rates among
young women, low-income women, women who had not completed high school, and
minority women.
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source
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- Early abortion services in the United States: a provider survey
(
April 2003
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This article by Benson et al published in Contraception notes that early abortion
services of both manual and electric aspiration and medication abortion were
available in 59% of the facilities surveyed among other findings.
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full text or source
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- Fact Sheet: Shortage of Abortion Providers
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March 2007
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This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the abortion provider shortage using statistics compiled in March 2007.
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- Fact Sheet: Who has abortions?
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March 2007
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This fact sheet provides an overview of women who are accessing abortion services, revealing the diversity of this group.
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- First trimester surgical abortion practices: a survey of National Abortion Federation members
(
October 2001
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This articles by Lichtenberg
et al published in Contraception
explores survey data of first trimester surgical abortion practices among
member providers, warning against the future effects of a “graying” (aging)
provider population..
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full text or source
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- Risk factors associated with presenting for abortion in the second trimester
(
January 2006
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This article published in Obstetrics & GynecologyI by Drey et al investigates why second
trimester patients did not receive abortion care earlier, pointing to public
health issues like lack of pregnancy awareness, timely referrals, and public
insurance.
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text or source
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- Roe versus Reality -- Abortion and Women's Health
(
July 2006
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This article by Wright and Katz published in the
New England Journal of Medicine
provides an illustrative description of how constricted access affects
patients, touching upon the provider shortage, “crisis pregnancy centers,” and
the D&X ban.
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source
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- Rural Access to Abortion Services in Canada
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May 2007
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This brief illustrative article in the Medical
Students for Choice’s Update by Larue
and Shaw describes research in Canada investigating barriers to abortion access
rural women face and their treatment by healthcare professionals as they seeks
care, capturing the way in which judgmental or misinformed staff act as
gatekeepers.
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source
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