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Federal Title X Funding Decimated for Many Providers
A shockwave rocked Title X programs on March 30, when the federal government’s latest round of funding left many facilities with huge budget shortfalls. The Biden administration had reversed the gag rule and asked Congress for more Title X funds. Yet, when Title X funding was announced, many programs received the worst cut in their history with the program. -
Patients’ Decisions on Contraceptives Are Fluid and Can Change Within Months
Contraception decisions rarely are consistent, especially when patients undergo a major life change, such as giving birth to their first child, new data show. These findings reinforce the idea that contraceptive counseling should be a dynamic and fluid process. -
Patients Experienced Contraceptive Access Barriers During Early Pandemic
Half of people capable of becoming pregnant reported difficulty accessing contraception in June and July 2020. Most attributed their delays to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study of 1,525 New York state residents revealed. -
Study: Screening Patients for History/Risk Is Safe, Effective for Medication Abortion
New research with data from 3,779 patients who obtained medication abortions revealed that providers could safely eliminate screening with ultrasonography and/or pelvic examination. Simply using their clinic’s history screening questions about pregnancy duration and ectopic pregnancy risk was enough to ensure safety and efficacy of medication abortions. -
Study of Online Searches for Abortion Revealed High Rate of Self-Managed Abortion
People who face barriers to abortion care are more likely to attempt self-managed abortion, including taking actions that may be harmful physically, according to the results of a recent study. The findings are particularly relevant as an increasing number of American women have little or no access to safe and legal abortions in their communities or states. -
Reducing Barriers to Self-Managed Abortion Care
Self-managed abortion care could be far cheaper and easier to obtain than it is now in the United States, with legal barriers such as state laws banning mail-order abortion pills and the federal rule that still prevents pharmacies from selling mifepristone and misoprostol. -
Self-Managed Abortions Becoming More Important as Post-Roe Era Looms
More states are passing highly restrictive anti-abortion legislation that will lead more people to seek abortions out of state or that are self-managed. Advance provision of medication abortion pills is one way to empower women to make their own decisions in the privacy of their homes.
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Doctors Must Act on Risk to Reproductive Rights
The abortion crisis that a family planning physician warned about several years ago is here as state legislatures have passed many laws that would stop abortions and place women at risk of injury or death during pregnancy. -
Suggestions for Sexual and Contraceptive Education for People with Disabilities
Clinicians can do more to improve contraceptive and sexual education for patients with disabilities, including youth. A big first step is acknowledging patients are interested in healthy intimate relationships, and sometimes also in preventing pregnancy. -
Sex Education, Counseling Needed for Minor Patients with Disabilities
Disparities in contraceptive use between women with and without disabilities are partly due to limited access to formal sex education in communities and schools, researchers suggest. Physicians could fill this gap, but they often are hindered by their own biases that these patients will not have sex.