Evidence suggests there is unmet demand for medication abortion and that patients highly value a choice of abortion method. Cost is a significant barrier to abortion access and can create delays in accessing early abortion care, pushing patients beyond eligibility for medication abortion. To reduce financial barriers and associated delays, reproductive health advocates have argued ...Read more >

Ultrasound use in the assessment of medical abortion eligibility varies by practice site. The National Abortion Federation (NAF), the Society of Family Planning (SFP), and the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines do not recommend the routine use of ultrasonography; however, many institutions and practices still require this as part of clinic protocol. Furthermore, many clinicians ...Read more >

We conducted a multisite, double blind, randomized clinical trial to assess the utility of nitrous oxide for pain relief in early second trimester abortion. This study randomized participants to receive either inhaled nitrous oxide or intravenous (IV) sedation with fentanyl and midazolam. We included women desiring abortion at gestational ages between 12 weeks 0 days ...Read more >

As a primary care internal medicine (IM) resident with a focus on women’s health and family planning, Dr. Tan feels passionately about the essential role of primary care in providing abortion services, especially as legal abortion access continues to be dictated by restrictive policies. Her career goal is to improve primary care medication abortion access ...Read more >

Asha Hassan is an early career Health Services Researcher and Epidemiologist. Asha completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in Gender and Women’s Studies with minors in global health and African studies in 2015. After graduating she moved to Nairobi, Kenya for a year to work as a research fellow ...Read more >

Elise is a fourth year PhD student at the University of Kansas and former lobbyist, organizer, and media spokesperson for Planned Parenthood. Her research is deeply informed by her experience of working against abortion stigma in the legislative and political process. Elise currently serves as the Vice President of the Kansas Abortion Fund, where her ...Read more >

Sara is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA and a Trainee at the California Center for Population Research, and completed her MPP in social policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. Her dissertation uses mixed methods to investigate the policy, behavioral, and interactional mechanisms driving racial and socioeconomic ...Read more >

Laura is a third-year resident in Child Neurology at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh aiming to become a clinician-investigator focused on improving sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young adults with neurologic conditions. Laura has a longstanding interest in family planning, including professional and volunteer commitments with the National Abortion Federation (NAF) Hotline ...Read more >

To help establish sexual and reproductive health (SRH) equity through early, consistent, and comprehensive sex education across all communities in the United States (US) is the long-term goal Priscilla has been working towards with each educational and professional experience. Sex education has typically rarely covered topics like LGBTQ healthcare, abortion, provider bias, among others. As ...Read more >

Jane Seymour is a doctoral student in epidemiology at Boston University and holds a Master in Public Health from the University of Pennsylvania. Jane currently works as a Senior Project Manager at Ibis Reproductive Health where she manages and leads qualitative and quantitative research to assess access to abortion and contraception in the United States ...Read more >