It Is Time to Integrate Abortion Into Primary Care

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ID11034904
AuthorsSusan Yanow (Susan Yanow is a consultant to multiple organizations including Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA, and the Reproductive Health Access Project, New York, NY., corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume103
Issue1
Pages14-16
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2012.301119
PMID23153160
PMCIDPMC3518342
OpenAlexW2048342150
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited7

The Roe v Wade decision made safe abortion available but did not change the reality that more than 1 million women face an unwanted pregnancy every year. Forty years after Roe v Wade, the procedure is not accessible to many US women. The politics of abortion have led to a plethora of laws that create enormous barriers to abortion access, particularly for young, rural, and low-income women. Family medicine physicians and advanced practice clinicians are qualified to provide abortion care. To realize the promise of Roe v Wade, first-trimester abortion must be integrated into primary care and public health professionals and advocates must work to remove barriers to the provision of abortion within primary care settings

Abortion · Abortion law · Environmental health · Face (sociological concept) · Family medicine · Family planning · Population · Pregnancy · Primary care · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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