This article by Dillon and Savage published by the Carsey Institutute examines rural attitudes, noting that while rural Americans are more likely to oppose abortion, there is also evidence of variation of these attitudes.

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The article by Finer et al is an comprehensive source for what creates delays before obtaining abortion services and the demographic trends that correspond with various delays.

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This article by Boonstra published in the Guttmacher Policy Review examines the long history of funding restrictions around abortion, describing how poor women have born the brunt of anti-abortion sentiments in government.

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This article by Henshaw and Finer is a comprehensive source for data on barriers to safe abortion services.

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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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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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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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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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This fact sheet provides an overview of women who are accessing abortion services, revealing the diversity of this group.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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