A source of legal risk for pregnant people, including those attempting self-managed abortion (SMA), is from healthcare professionals reporting them to authorities.
But new data shows most did not support SMA-reporting, although views varied by profession.
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We’ve been around for over two decades, and in the past four years, we’ve seen a massive ramp-up in attacks on bodily autonomy and reproductive health care.
None of this is normal.
Abortion bans impact access to all kinds of health care.
A new study shows that states with abortion bans are getting fewer medical residency applications—and not just from OBGYNs.
"Punch’s birth wasn’t a political hot potato, but the same narrative that erases birth mothers pervades expressions of sympathy for him — what kind of awful, cruel mother could spurn little Punch!"
The number of laws encouraging neighbors—and relatives—to rat each other out is growing.
Several GOP towns and states now allow residents to sue each other for getting abortion care, and get paid for doing it.
Having a medication abortion via telehealth is more common than ever, and we have years of research proving that it is safe and effective.
Anti-abortion extremists are trying to stop us from accessing medication abortion.
What they aren’t saying is that those pills are also essential for patients experiencing a miscarriage.
Abortion restrictions hurt everyone. Period.
Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for the millions of Americans who live in healthcare deserts. Yet an obscure committee now promises to strip them of access to educational funds, putting the healthcare system, the nursing workforce, and patients at risk.
A new study found individuals who experienced food insecurity were more likely to choose telehealth abortion because of economic constraints, like cost, challenges in finding transportation, and difficulty with finding child care.
No one knows your life better than you do.
Our research shows that people are experts in their own lives and know when having an abortion is the best decision for them.
The Turnaway Study shows those who are denied access to abortion care face significantly increased risk of long-term domestic violence.
Abuse can begin for the first time, or ongoing abuse is likely to escalate during pregnancy.
While AI for health care is frequently discussed, AI’s relationship to abortion has received limited attention.
A new paper surveys data on AI and abortion to date, and proposes an Abortion AI research agenda. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Telemedicine abortion pills account for nearly 30% of all abortions—and nearly all abortions in banned states.
That’s why anti-abortion activists are so desperate to obstruct access to the pills.
Medication abortion is safe and effective, including when provided through telehealth.
Over one in four abortions in the U.S. now occur via telehealth, not because of politics, but because the data support its safety and patients choose it.
This is horrifying.
Abortion bans hurt families.
When women are denied an abortion, they are at higher risk of poor bonding with their new babies, and their existing children are also more likely to be raised in poverty and less likely to meet developmental milestones.
Pregnancy does not reduce medical risk; it often increases it.
But abortion bans make providers afraid to provide lifesaving medical care to pregnant people, making pregnancy in America dangerous.
Abortion pills remain undefeated post-Dobbs.
The antiabortion movement has tried so many different things, and the net result is a total of 0 seconds post-Dobbs that abortion pills have been further restricted. ZERO.
On the flip side, they are cheaper and more available than ever.
Today, Louisiana is asking a federal court to reinstate medically unnecessary, burdensome restrictions that would effectively end telehealth access to mifepristone nationwide.
Let's be clear: medication abortion via telehealth is safe and effective. This is about limiting patient access.
At least 101 studies in 26 countries over three decades have found that medication abortions are very safe. Pass it on.
Abortion clinics are continuing to close, even in key access hubs like New York and Illinois.
There are about a dozen fewer brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in the US than there were two years ago.
The Turnaway Study followed thousands of women seeking abortion care, and one thing stood out to researchers–these women understood the circumstances of their lives and why an abortion was the right decision for them.
It’s been just over one year since the world lost Adriana Smith—the Georgia woman whose body was forcibly kept alive after suffering brain death because she was pregnant.
Her mother, April Newkirk, asks that we remember Adriana.
Adoption is complex and often traumatic.
Gretchen Sisson’s research found that most women who “chose” adoption would not have done so if they had as little as $5,000 in support.
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Abortion is a safe, common health care service to end a pregnancy.
One in four women will have an abortion by the age of 45.
"To me, as a mother who was manipulated into relinquishing her son, this 'third option' [of adoption] isn’t a bridge — it’s a trap draped in the language of bravery. It is dangerous, expensive propaganda."
Punishing someone for having a miscarriage is unconscionable, but since the Dobbs decision, there have been at least 400 pregnancy-related arrests.
