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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Listen to ANSIRH's @ushma.bsky.social discuss abortion misinformation on the Unchecked podcast. 🎧️
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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."
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Punishing someone for having a miscarriage is unconscionable, but since the Dobbs decision, there have been at least 400 pregnancy-related arrests.
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Abortion restrictions are extremely dangerous.
Research shows that state abortion restrictions put in place during the last two decades have resulted in more women dying during or after childbirth.
Your reason for having an abortion is good enough.
You know what is best for you and your future.
.@JessicaValenti writes about how conservatives are scrapping sex education, fighting to ban ads from pro-choice groups that share information about abortion care, and even trying to make websites sharing information about abortion care illegal.
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“From the tradwife explosion to MAHA disinformation about birth control, conservatives are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into convincing the next generation that the rapid erosion of their rights isn’t a political and moral crisis—but a lifestyle upgrade.”
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Banning abortion has serious economic consequences.
The Turnaway Study found that people who are denied abortions are less likely to have enough money to cover expenses like food, housing, and transportation even years later.
Our understanding of menopause “will remain incomplete until we have our research and clinical care guided by the menopausal experiences of those who experience it,” writes ANSIRH researcher Monica McLemore.
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A law set to take effect in early December gives Texans the power to sue anyone involved in mailing abortion pills to the state, from drug companies to doctors.
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The FACE Act was designed to protect abortion providers, clinic staff, and patients from violent protestors.
Instead, the DOJ is abusing the FACE Act to attack journalists documenting political protests.
ANSIRH is hiring 3 students to work closely with faculty and staff on our Abortion Facility Database! The student interns will be responsible for updating ANSIRH’s national database of abortion-providing facilities.
Apply by 2/22!
Did you know that six in ten abortion seekers in the United States are already parents?
They know precisely what it takes to raise a child.
Telehealth abortion care is just as safe as in-clinic care.
ANSIRH Director @drdgrossman.bsky.social testified that rare complications occur only after the full two-drug regimen, not during the initial in-office dose of mifepristone.
Patients deserve to have abortions on their own terms.
Medication abortion is the most common method of abortion in the United States and can be safely administered at home.
