Articles Tagged With: Abortion
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Essential Access Health Asks Judges for Full Court Reconsideration
Essential Access Health has asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a February 2020 decision that upheld the Trump administration’s Title X regulations, issued May 22, 2018, which have had a dramatic effect on Title X family planning centers.
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Family Planning Centers Find Creative Ways to Provide Services During Pandemic
As elective and nonurgent procedures were cancelled or discouraged nationwide because of COVID-19, some reproductive health centers found creative ways to continue their services as safely as possible and to keep staff working during a period of low foot traffic.
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Study Examines Failed Self-Managed Abortions in Texas
A recent study revealed that nearly 7% of women seeking abortion services at Texas facilities in 2012 and 2014 reported they had attempted to self-manage their abortion before visiting the clinic. In states like Texas, where most abortion clinics closed because of restrictive state laws, accessing an abortion clinic is challenging. Barriers to safe and legal abortions appeared to be associated with women attempting self-management of abortion.
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Title X Final Rule Is Troubling for Providers
The recent Title X changes enacted by the Trump administration are creating major ethical dilemmas and operational challenges for family planning and reproductive health clinics nationwide.
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Title X Problems Worsen with Recent Court Decision
The recent Title X changes have proven devastating to women depending on family planning centers for their reproductive healthcare needs. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upheld the Trump administration’s gag rule that prohibits Title X providers from referring patients for abortion care or even answering questions about abortion.
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Should Antibiotic Prophylaxis Be Used for Surgical Treatment of Early Pregnancy Loss?
In this randomized, controlled trial of more than 3,000 women in developing countries with incomplete or missed abortion at less than 22 weeks’ gestation, antibiotic prophylaxis prior to uterine evacuation reduced infection rates when a strict definition for pelvic infection was used, but not when a more expanded definition was used.
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Legislators, Listen Up, Learn, and Perhaps Beware
Combined oral contraceptives have been shown to provide health benefits beyond birth control.
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Report Details Effect of Mifepristone Labeling Change
New research indicates that for Texas providers and patients, the 2016 Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new labeling for the abortion drug mifepristone increased access options and brought the proportion of medication abortions in the state into alignment with national data.
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Reproductive Health Advocates Push Back Against Proposed Title X Plans
On March 4, the Trump administration published a final regulation that is a new version of the Reagan administration’s “domestic gag rule.” With the rule’s publication in the Federal Register, a 60-day clock is ticking until provisions of the rule start going into effect.
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State Policymakers Work Toward and Against a Post-Roe Country