Abortion-Related Research

Acevedo Z. Abortion in early America. Womens Health. 1979;4(2):159-167. doi:10.1300/J013v04n02_05

 

ACOG Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women, Abortion Access and Training Expert Work Group, & Grossman, D. (2020, December). Increasing access to abortion. https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-statement/articles/2025/02/increasing-access-to-abortion

 

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2018, July). The Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/primary/pcwork3/index.html

 

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (2014, November). Abortion training and education. https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2014/11/abortion-training-and-education

 

American Public Health Association. (2011). Provision of abortion care by advanced practice nurses and physician assistants. https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2014/07/28/16/00/provision-of-abortion-care-by-advanced-practice-nurses-and-physician-assistants

 

An Act to Authorize Certain Healthcare Providers to Perform Abortions, LD1261, HP 922, 129th Leg, 1st Sess (Maine 2019). Accessed December 1, 2023. https://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280072502

 

Authority of Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to perform pre-viability abortion. Office of the Attorney General of Washington State website.2019. Accessed December 1, 2023. https://www.atg.wa.gov/ago-opinions/authority-advanced-registered-nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants-perform-pre

 

Barry, D., & Rugg, J. (2015, May 26). Improving abortion access by expanding those who provide care. Center for American Progress. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/improving-abortion-access-by-expanding-those-who-provide-care/

 

Bearak J, Popinchalk A, Ganatra B, et al. Unintended pregnancy and abortion by income, region, and the legal status of abortion: estimates from a comprehensive model for 1990–2019. Lancet Glob Health. 2020; 8(9):e1152-e1161.

 

Beaman, J., Prifti, C., Schwarz, E., & Sobota, M. (2020). Medication to manage abortion and miscarriage. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(8), 2398–2405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05836-9

 

Beisel N, Kay T. Abortion, race, and gender in nineteenth-century America. Amer Soc Rev. 2004;69(4):498-518.

 

Bodde K. New York Law & the Provision of Abortion Care. New York Civil Liberties Union; 2019. Accessed December 1, 2023. https://nysperinatal.org/resources/Documents/Understanding%20New%20York%27s%20Reproductive%20Act%20(RHA)%20%20K.%20Bodde.pdf

 

Brooks, A. (2020, November 13). These states are poised to expand reproductive rights - rewire news group. Rewire News Group. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2020/11/13/these-states-are-poised-to-expand-reproductive-rights/

 

Casas, R. S., & Chuang, C. H. (2020). Medication for abortion and miscarriage in primary care: Important and possible for general internists. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(8), 2256–2257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05919-7

 

Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 US (2021). Accessed December 1, 2023. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf

 

Ganatra B, Gerdts C, Rossier C, et al. Global, regional, and sub-regional classification of abortions by safety, 2010–14: estimatesfrom a Bayesian hierarchical model. Lancet. 2017;390(10110):P2372-P2381.

 

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine. (2011). The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24983041/

 

Jenkins, Julie, et al. “Midwifery and APRN Scope of Practice in Abortion Care in the Early Post-Roe Era: Everything Old Is New Again.” Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, vol. 68, no. 6, 2023, pp. 734–743, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38078694/, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.13599.

 

Joffe CE. Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Beacon Press; 1996.

 

Jones, R. K., Witwer, E., & Jerman, J. (2019, September 11). Abortion incidence and service availability in the united states, 2017. Guttmacher Institute. https://www.guttmacher.org/report/abortion-incidence-service-availability-us-2017

 

Jones, Rachel K., et al. “Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, 2020.” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, vol. 54, no. 4, 20 Nov. 2022, https://doi.org/10.1363/psrh.12215.

 

Kimport K, McLemore MR. The problem with “justifying” abortion: why real reproductive justice cannot be achieved by theorizing the legitimacy of abortion. Womens Reprod Health. 2022;9:1-5. doi:10.1080/03610926.2021.1999587

 

Myers, C., Jones, R., & Upadhyay, U. (2019). Predicted changes in abortion access and incidence in a post-roe world. Contraception, 100(5), 367–373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2019.07.139

 

Nash, E. (2018, December 10). State abortion policy landscape: From hostile to supportive. Guttmacher Institute. https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2019/08/state-abortion-policy-landscape-hostile-supportive

 

Nash, E., & Cross, L. (2021a, June 14). 2021 is on track to become the most devastating antiabortion state legislative session in decades. Guttmacher Institute. https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/04/2021-track-become-most-devastating-antiabortion-state-legislative-session-decades

 

Nash, E., & Donovan, M. K. (2019, January 9). Ensuring access to abortion at the state level: Selected examples and lessons. Guttmacher Institute. https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2019/01/ensuring-access-abortion-state-level-selected-examples-and-lessons

 

National Abortion Federation. (1997). The role of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse-midwives in providing abortions [PDF]. https://prochoice.org/pubs_research/publications/downloads/cfc/1996_symposium_report.pdf

 

Raymond EG, Grimes DA. The comparative safety of legal in-duced abortion and childbirth in the United States. Obstet Gynecol. 2012;119(2 Pt 1):215-219. doi:10.1097/AOG.0b013e31823fe923. PMID: 22270271

 

Reagan LJ. When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, -. University Of California Press; 1998.

 

Reagan LJ. Linking midwives and abortion in the Progressive Era. Bull Hist Med. 1995;69(4):569-598.

 

Strange JM. Menstrual fictions: languages of medicine and men struation, c. 1850–1930. Womens Hist Rev. 2000;9(3):607-628. doi:10.1080/09612020000200260

 

Summit, A. K., Casey, L. M., Bennett, A. H., Karasz, A., & Gold, M. (2016). “I don’t want to go anywhere else”: Patient experiences of abortion in family medicine. Family Medicine, 48(1), 30–34. https://doi.org/https://www.stfm.org/FamilyMedicine/Vol48Issue1/Summit30

 

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018, March 16). The quality of abortion care depends on where a woman lives, says one of most comprehensive reviews of research on safety and quality of abortion care in the U.S. https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2018/03/the-quality-of-abortion-care-depends-on-where-a-woman-lives-says-one-of-most-comprehensive-reviews-of-research-on-safety-and-quality-of-abortion-care-in-the-us

 

Taylor D (2012, July) NPs and sexual and reproductive healthcare services: Analysis of supply and demand. UCSF ANSIRH

 

Taylor D, McLemore M, Anderson P (2013, October). The real gold standard: safe, licensed professional abortion care. UCSF ANSIRH.

 

Taylor D, McLemore M, Anderson P (2014, January). Commemorating ROE by expanding abortion access. UCSF ANSIRH

 

Taylor, D., Battistelli, M., Anderson, P., & Arida, J. (2017a, August). Hwpp study findings and methods. ANSIRH. https://www.ansirh.org/research/publication/hwpp-study-findings-and-methods

 

Taylor, D., Battistelli, M., Anderson, P., & Arida, J. (2017b, November). Safety and acceptability of NPs, CNMs, and PAs as abortion providers [PDF]. https://www.ansirh.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/safety_of_nps_cnms_and_pas_as_abortion_providers.pdf

 

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018, March 16). The quality of abortion care depends on where a woman lives, says one of most comprehensive reviews of research on safety and quality of abortion care in the U.S. https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2018/03/the-quality-of-abortion-care-depends-on-where-a-woman-lives-says-one-of-most-comprehensive-reviews-of-research-on-safety-and-quality-of-abortion-care-in-the-us

 

Upadhyay UD, Koenig LR, Meckstroth KR. Safety and efficacy of telehealth medication abortions in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA Network Open. 2021;4(8):e2122320.

 

Weitz, T. A., Taylor, D., Desai, S., Upadhyay, U. D., Waldman, J., Battistelli, M. F., & Drey, E. A. (2013). Safety of aspiration abortion performed by nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants under a california legal waiver. American Journal of Public Health, 103(3), 454–461. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2012.301159

 

 World Health Organization. (2016). Expanding health worker roles for safe abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/206191/WHO_RHR_16.02_eng.pdf?sequence=1

 

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