3/26/24 California’s emergency stockpile of abortion pills is totally depleted. But after today’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing over whether to restrict medication abortion, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office says he’s still deciding whether a resupply is necessary. Last year Newsom announced…
Jones & Friedrich-Karnik. Guttmacher Institute. March 2024 New Guttmacher Institute research from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study shows that there were approximately 642,700 medication abortions in the United States in 2023, accounting for 63% of all abortions in the formal health care…
Seymour, Higgins, & Roberts. Contraception. March 2024. This study, the first to examine abortion preferences in the United States, using a discrete choice experiment, demonstrates the importance of wait time and cost in abortion care decision-making. Our work indicates that…
Johnson, Aiken, & Thompson. Nature. March 2024. Telehealth provision of medication abortion is safe and effective, but ensuring equitable access is challenging in the USA — and further compounded by an upcoming Supreme Court case. READ MORE
Valley et al. WMJ. March 2023. Abortion legislation in the United States determines people’s access to services, including the abortion modality of their choice. In 2012, Wisconsin legislators passed Act 217, banning telemedicine for medication abortion and requiring the same…