A research on abortion: ethics, legislation and socio-medical outcomes. Case study: Romania
This article presents a research study on abortion from a theoretical and empirical point of view. The theoretical part is based on the method of social documents analysis, and presents a complex perspective on abortion, highlighting items of medical, ...
Abortion Care in the United States
Jackson Women's Health Organization, access to abortion services has been increasingly restricted in the United States. Jung and colleagues review current practice and evidence on medication abortion, procedural abortion, and associated reproductive health care, as well as implications for training environments in the post- Dobbs landscape.
Standardizing abortion research outcomes (STAR): Results from an
The Standardizing Abortion Research (STAR) outcomes project aims to define a core outcome set for abortion-related research. Abortion is a common experience worldwide, with an estimated 73 million abortions annually [12].
Beyond safety: the 2022 WHO abortion guidelines and the future of
Summary box In March 2022, the WHO released updated guidelines consolidating the current evidence and best practices for provision of quality abortion care, which, for the first time, include self-management of medical abortion as a fully recommended model of abortion care.
PDF Abortion and Mental Health: Evaluating the Evidence
The authors evaluated empirical research addressing the relationship between induced abortion and women's men-tal health. Two issues were addressed: (a) the relative risks associated with abortion compared with the risks associ-ated with its alternatives and (b) sources of variability in women's responses following abortion.
The abortion and mental health controversy: A comprehensive literature
In summary, the consensus of expert opinion, including that of both AMH proponents and minimalists, is that (a) a history of abortion is consistently associated with elevated rates of mental illness compared to women without a history of abortion; (b) the abortion experience can directly contribute to mental health problems in some women; (c ...
Mental Health Implications of Abortion Restrictions for Historically
Applying an intersectional lens encompassing structural racism, reproductive injustice, and mental health makes it clear that the Dobbs decision will exacerbate health inequities.
Experiences of abortion: A narrative review of qualitative studies
Background Although abortion or termination of pregnancy (TOP) has become an increasingly normalized component of women's health care over the past forty years, insufficient attention has been paid to women's experiences of surgical or medical methods of TOP. Objective To undertake a narrative review of qualitative studies of women's experiences of TOP and their perspectives on surgical or ...
Abortion research that matters: Using core outcomes to enable ...
Abortion research that matters: Using core outcomes to enable systematic review. Abortion research that matters: Using core outcomes to enable systematic review. Contraception. 2022 Dec:116:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2022.05.014. Epub 2022 Aug 30.
Effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion in ...
In a prospective study across US states where abortion remains legal, telehealth medication abortion, provided primarily without tests, was effective, safe and comparable to previous findings from ...
Impact of abortion law reforms on women's health services and outcomes
Our aim is to systematically collect, evaluate, and synthesize empirical research evidence concerning the impact of abortion law reforms on women's health services and outcomes in LMICs. We will conduct a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature on changes in abortion laws and women's health services and outcomes in LMICs.
Access to safe abortion is a fundamental human right
Abortion is a common medical or surgical intervention used to terminate pregnancy. Although a controversial and widely debated topic, approximately 73 million induced abortions occur worldwide each year, with 29% of all pregnancies and over 60% of unintended pregnancies ending in abortion. Abortions are considered safe if they are carried out using a method recommended by WHO, appropriate to ...
The "abortion imaginary": Shared perceptions and personal ...
Collective understandings of who gets abortions and why form an "abortion imaginary," with consequences for abortion opinion.
Full article: #AbortionChangesYou: A Case Study to Understand the
Given the privatization of abortion provision, research is needed to examine the distinct experiences of women who have undergone this type of abortion.
Impact of abortion law reforms on women's health services and outcomes
Due to anticipated heterogeneity in policy changes, outcomes, and study designs, we will synthesize results through a narrative description. Discussion This review will systematically appraise and synthesize the research evidence on the impact of abortion law reforms on women's health services and outcomes in LMICs.
Important conclusions from abortion studies
In general, it can be concluded that the initiative on the determinants and consequences of induced abortion has shown some important patterns. For example, induced abortion is not restricted to adolescents but occurs also within marriage to limit family size. Induced abortion is prevalent both where family planning services are available and ...
Enabling access to quality abortion care: WHO's Abortion Care guideline
Using this holistic approach to the provision of quality abortion care, the Abortion Care guideline carries a consistent message: access to quality abortion care is both a health and human rights issue. The recommendations and best practice statements in this guideline are only the first step and they still need to be operationalised and ...
Access to abortion and women's health: What the research shows
As physicians and their patients brace for a new reality that makes it even harder to access abortion care, previous research shows they can expect to see women's physical and economic health negatively affected if they wish to have an abortion but are unable to access it. "Women are emotionally ...
Abortion Experiences, Knowledge, and Attitudes Among Women in the U.S
Key Takeaways. Among women of reproductive age, one in seven (14%) have had an abortion at some point in their life. Larger shares of Black (21%) and Hispanic (19%) women report having had an ...
Key facts about the abortion debate in America
As the nation's post-Roe chapter begins and the legal battle shifts to the states, here are key facts about Americans' views on abortion.
Abortion and health care
In 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, revoking the constitutional right to abortion.The landmark Dobbs decision has reignited debates about legal abortion and in particular its status as an essential health care service.. In a paper in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, authors Sherajum Monira Farin, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, and Michael F. Pesko analyzed maternal ...
The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States
Conclusions This report provides a comprehensive review of the state of the science on the safety and quality of abortion services in the United States. The committee was charged with answering eight specific research questions. This chapter presents the committee's conclusions by responding individually to each question. The research findings that are the basis for these conclusions are ...
The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States
The use of abortion medications in the United States began in 2000 with the approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the drug mifepristone. In 2016, the FDA, citing extensive clinical research, updated the indications for mifepristone for medication abortion 3 up to 10 weeks' (70 days') gestation ( FDA, 2016; Woodcock, 2016 ).
Fact-checking warnings from Democrats about Project 2025 and ...
Project 2025 wouldn't ban abortion outright, but would curtail access The Harris campaign shared a graphic on X that claimed "Trump's Project 2025 plan for workers" would "go after birth ...
Abortion and public health: Time for another look
Wade, abortion remains highly contentious, pitting a woman's right to choose against a fetal claim to life. Public health implications are staggering: the US annual total of more than one million induced abortions equals nearly half the number of registered deaths from all causes. Sentiment regarding abortion is roughly evenly split among the ...
What is Project 2025? Wish list for a Trump presidency, explained
Project 2025 does not call outright for a nationwide abortion ban. However, it proposes withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market, and using existing but little-enforced laws to ...
Two Project 2025 partners are promoting LifeWise, an organization
Its central document is a nearly 900-page policy book called Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise, which employs Christian nationalist talking points to support its right-wing goals ...
We fact-checked Trump's recent news conference : NPR
A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of last Thursday's news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.
Abortion bans and their impacts: A view from the United States
A retrospective study of abortion facilities in and around Texas by White et al. and a spatial analysis by Rader et al. are combined to illustrate the detrimental effects of abortion bans enacted in the United States.A retrospective study ...
Walz Family Fertility Journey Ran Not Through I.V.F. but Another Common
I.V.F. accounted for close to 100,000 infants born in the United States in 2022, and a Pew Research Center poll from this year showed that it was viewed positively by a large majority of Americans.
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This article presents a research study on abortion from a theoretical and empirical point of view. The theoretical part is based on the method of social documents analysis, and presents a complex perspective on abortion, highlighting items of medical, ...
Jackson Women's Health Organization, access to abortion services has been increasingly restricted in the United States. Jung and colleagues review current practice and evidence on medication abortion, procedural abortion, and associated reproductive health care, as well as implications for training environments in the post- Dobbs landscape.
The Standardizing Abortion Research (STAR) outcomes project aims to define a core outcome set for abortion-related research. Abortion is a common experience worldwide, with an estimated 73 million abortions annually [12].
Summary box In March 2022, the WHO released updated guidelines consolidating the current evidence and best practices for provision of quality abortion care, which, for the first time, include self-management of medical abortion as a fully recommended model of abortion care.
The authors evaluated empirical research addressing the relationship between induced abortion and women's men-tal health. Two issues were addressed: (a) the relative risks associated with abortion compared with the risks associ-ated with its alternatives and (b) sources of variability in women's responses following abortion.
In summary, the consensus of expert opinion, including that of both AMH proponents and minimalists, is that (a) a history of abortion is consistently associated with elevated rates of mental illness compared to women without a history of abortion; (b) the abortion experience can directly contribute to mental health problems in some women; (c ...
Applying an intersectional lens encompassing structural racism, reproductive injustice, and mental health makes it clear that the Dobbs decision will exacerbate health inequities.
Background Although abortion or termination of pregnancy (TOP) has become an increasingly normalized component of women's health care over the past forty years, insufficient attention has been paid to women's experiences of surgical or medical methods of TOP. Objective To undertake a narrative review of qualitative studies of women's experiences of TOP and their perspectives on surgical or ...
Abortion research that matters: Using core outcomes to enable systematic review. Abortion research that matters: Using core outcomes to enable systematic review. Contraception. 2022 Dec:116:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2022.05.014. Epub 2022 Aug 30.
In a prospective study across US states where abortion remains legal, telehealth medication abortion, provided primarily without tests, was effective, safe and comparable to previous findings from ...
Our aim is to systematically collect, evaluate, and synthesize empirical research evidence concerning the impact of abortion law reforms on women's health services and outcomes in LMICs. We will conduct a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature on changes in abortion laws and women's health services and outcomes in LMICs.
Abortion is a common medical or surgical intervention used to terminate pregnancy. Although a controversial and widely debated topic, approximately 73 million induced abortions occur worldwide each year, with 29% of all pregnancies and over 60% of unintended pregnancies ending in abortion. Abortions are considered safe if they are carried out using a method recommended by WHO, appropriate to ...
Collective understandings of who gets abortions and why form an "abortion imaginary," with consequences for abortion opinion.
Given the privatization of abortion provision, research is needed to examine the distinct experiences of women who have undergone this type of abortion.
Due to anticipated heterogeneity in policy changes, outcomes, and study designs, we will synthesize results through a narrative description. Discussion This review will systematically appraise and synthesize the research evidence on the impact of abortion law reforms on women's health services and outcomes in LMICs.
In general, it can be concluded that the initiative on the determinants and consequences of induced abortion has shown some important patterns. For example, induced abortion is not restricted to adolescents but occurs also within marriage to limit family size. Induced abortion is prevalent both where family planning services are available and ...
Using this holistic approach to the provision of quality abortion care, the Abortion Care guideline carries a consistent message: access to quality abortion care is both a health and human rights issue. The recommendations and best practice statements in this guideline are only the first step and they still need to be operationalised and ...
As physicians and their patients brace for a new reality that makes it even harder to access abortion care, previous research shows they can expect to see women's physical and economic health negatively affected if they wish to have an abortion but are unable to access it. "Women are emotionally ...
Key Takeaways. Among women of reproductive age, one in seven (14%) have had an abortion at some point in their life. Larger shares of Black (21%) and Hispanic (19%) women report having had an ...
As the nation's post-Roe chapter begins and the legal battle shifts to the states, here are key facts about Americans' views on abortion.
In 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, revoking the constitutional right to abortion.The landmark Dobbs decision has reignited debates about legal abortion and in particular its status as an essential health care service.. In a paper in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, authors Sherajum Monira Farin, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, and Michael F. Pesko analyzed maternal ...
Conclusions This report provides a comprehensive review of the state of the science on the safety and quality of abortion services in the United States. The committee was charged with answering eight specific research questions. This chapter presents the committee's conclusions by responding individually to each question. The research findings that are the basis for these conclusions are ...
The use of abortion medications in the United States began in 2000 with the approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the drug mifepristone. In 2016, the FDA, citing extensive clinical research, updated the indications for mifepristone for medication abortion 3 up to 10 weeks' (70 days') gestation ( FDA, 2016; Woodcock, 2016 ).
Project 2025 wouldn't ban abortion outright, but would curtail access The Harris campaign shared a graphic on X that claimed "Trump's Project 2025 plan for workers" would "go after birth ...
Wade, abortion remains highly contentious, pitting a woman's right to choose against a fetal claim to life. Public health implications are staggering: the US annual total of more than one million induced abortions equals nearly half the number of registered deaths from all causes. Sentiment regarding abortion is roughly evenly split among the ...
Project 2025 does not call outright for a nationwide abortion ban. However, it proposes withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market, and using existing but little-enforced laws to ...
Its central document is a nearly 900-page policy book called Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise, which employs Christian nationalist talking points to support its right-wing goals ...
A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of last Thursday's news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.
A retrospective study of abortion facilities in and around Texas by White et al. and a spatial analysis by Rader et al. are combined to illustrate the detrimental effects of abortion bans enacted in the United States.A retrospective study ...
I.V.F. accounted for close to 100,000 infants born in the United States in 2022, and a Pew Research Center poll from this year showed that it was viewed positively by a large majority of Americans.