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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This article by Harper et al published in the Annual Review of Public Health provides
a review of literature describing abortion access, incidence, and provision in
the United States.
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.
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.
