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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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..
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 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 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.
