State Abortion Policies, Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider Laws, and Abortion Demand

ObjectiveThe Massachusetts Access Program is a statewide, centralised referral and case management program created to address barriers to later second-trimester abortions. This study outlines the scope of, describes provider experiences with, and evaluates provider acceptability of the Program.Study designWe invited physicians, nurses and staff working in hospitals within the later abortion provider referral network to participate in a mixed-methods study that included a web-based quantitative survey and/or a semi-structured qualitative interview. We used descriptive statistics to analyse survey data and inductive coding methods to analyse interview data.ResultsFrom 2007–2012, 15–28% of abortions performed in Massachusetts at 19 weeks or greater gestational age annually were scheduled through the Access Program. We received 16 completed surveys and conducted seven interviews with providers who routinely receive referrals for later abortions through the Program. Providers overall reported positive experiences with the Program and found it highly acceptable. They described that the transportation, accommodation and financial assistance enabled patients access to care. The specialised and updated knowledge of the Access Coordinator in regards to abortion care also allowed her to act as a resource for providers.ConclusionsThe Access Program, through its referral and case management network, was a valuable resource both to patients seeking later second-trimester abortions and providers involved in abortion care. It acts as one example of an effective, highly acceptable and potentially replicable intervention to reduce barriers to obtaining later second-trimester abortions.

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Michigan’s HB5711: a case study of the role of abortion provider stigma in anti-abortion legislation

Contraception ◽

10.1016/j.contraception.2013.05.054 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 88 (3) ◽

pp. 443 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

L. Harris ◽

L. Martin ◽

E. Youatt ◽

M. Eagen-Torrko ◽

A. Bonnington ◽

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Keyword(s):

Abortion Legislation ◽

Abortion Provider

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Changes in abortion provider practices in response to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003

Contraception ◽

10.1016/j.contraception.2008.11.010 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 79 (5) ◽

pp. 379-384 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Lisa Haddad ◽

Susan Yanow ◽

Laurent Delli-Bovi ◽

Kate Cosby ◽

Tracy A. Weitz

Keyword(s):

Provider Practices ◽

Abortion Provider

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Evaluation of the abortion provider stigma scale

Contraception ◽

10.1016/j.contraception.2014.05.049 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 90 (3) ◽

pp. 306

Author(s):

L. Martin ◽

J. Hassinger ◽

L. Harris

Keyword(s):

Stigma Scale ◽

Abortion Provider

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Abortion is an Information Issue

The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) ◽

10.33137/ijidi.v1i1.32187 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hope E Reilly

Keyword(s):

Information Access ◽

Supreme Court Decision ◽

Intellectual Freedom ◽

Public Health Issue ◽

Planned Parenthood ◽

Wide Range ◽

Information Studies ◽

Abortion Provider ◽

Legal Restrictions ◽

The Impact

In the years following the 1992 Supreme Court decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, abortion has been subjected to a wide range of legal restrictions, and the impact of these restrictions has not been adequately studied. While this process of increasingly restrictive regulation may be considered a public health issue, the natures of these laws also make them relevant to information studies. Biased counseling laws mandate that an abortion provider disseminate information specifically designed to discourage a woman from obtaining an abortion. This paper examines the impact of these laws on both the abortion patient and provider. Biased counseling information has a demonstrable effect on the health information access of abortion patients and on the intellectual freedom of abortion providers. However, there are also chilling effects on the intellectual freedom of the abortion patients themselves. This paper establishes abortion as an information issue and calls for future study into its effects on information access and intellectual freedom.

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Infective endocarditis as a result of obstetric and gynecological sepsis

Journal of obstetrics and women s diseases ◽

10.17816/jowd81602 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 118-121

Author(s):

О. V. Linkova ◽

Т. G. Khubulava ◽

В. N. Novikov

Keyword(s):

High Mortality ◽

Women Patients ◽

Right Heart ◽

Adequate Treatment ◽

Course Of Disease ◽

Distinctive Features ◽

Abortion Demand ◽

The Moment ◽

The Right ◽

Heart Section

The special place taken the problem of infectious failure of endocardial structures in obstetric-gynecologic practice. In this article given the analyses of the results of leading research and treatment of women patients with infectious endocarditic in puerperal period. The actuality of this problem is determined by the increasing of women with infectious endocarditic, being developed in the period of after childbirth and abortion, because of the late diagnostic and consequence, high mortality. The question of developing endocarditic at women in the period after childbirth and abortion, as in our, so in modem literature is partly shown and there are only descriptions of some cases of appearing the disease or findings failured endocarditic at autopsy of women, died because of sepsis. The researches shown, that infectious endocarditic of puerperal period has itsown distinctive features: the first endocarditic with often localization of infection in the right heart section; the leading among the stimulyses IE is golden staphylococcus, taking the first place in etiology of pus-septic infections in obstetric-gynecologic practice; long and sub acute course of disease till the moment of stating the final diagnoses, and late beginning of adequate treatment and consequence, high mortality. The questions of developing IE after childbirth and abortion demand the further researching with the aim of prophylaxis, early diagnostic and choice of early adequate complex treatment as surgical, so therapeutic.

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