Women with intellectual disabilities (ID) face significant barriers to accessing reproductive health care options, including contraception and abortion. Though reducing health disparities for adults with ID has emerged as an important public health priority, disparities in reproductive health care access remain largely unaddressed, and somewhat taboo, even among disability researchers. The existing literature has focused ...Read more >

Objectives: To explore the underlying reasons why women profess happiness about unintended pregnancies and how these reasons relate to their motivation to avoid pregnancy. Methods: Between September 2013 and February 2014, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 27 women (8 White, 19 Latina) selected from a longitudinal study measuring prospective pregnancy intentions and feelings among ...Read more >

There are few sites that have developed a more productive family planning research program with fewer resources in a shorter period of time than the University of Utah. In 2007 I began to devote a considerable amount of time to developing a multi-disciplinary Family Planning Research Group. We met biweekly and initiated investigations into increasing ...Read more >

Women in Catalunya (an autonomous nation often seen by outsiders as part of Spain) currently have legal access to publicly funded abortion care for any reason in the first trimester, and under a set of qualifying circumstances in later trimesters, within a public health system. This makes Catalunya a rare departure from the overwhelming example ...Read more >

Objective: To identify whether early placental and endometrial biomarkers that can indicate intrauterine versus ectopic pregnancy can be detected in cervical mucus samples from women in early pregnancy and with pregnancy of unknown location. Methods: This study will be conducted at Oregon Health and Science University and Planned Parenthood of the Colombia-Willamette sites in Portland, ...Read more >

Transgender and gender expansive (TGE) individuals face multiple barriers to accessing health care, including higher rates of discrimination in health care settings, denials of care, limited provider knowledge, and lower rates of insurance coverage than the general US population. Further, transgender individuals report high rates of delaying care due to discrimination or lack of financial ...Read more >

Reproductive coercion and partner violence are associated with unwanted pregnancy and abortion globally. In Bangladesh, women reporting partner violence are more likely to access abortion outside the health system and less likely to access post-abortion contraception, especially if accompanied to the clinic by their partner, which suggests additional intervention is needed to support clients’ reproductive ...Read more >

Background: Significant enthusiasm about immediate postpartum placement of long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods has prompted concerns about the line between active promotion of LARC methods and coercion, particularly when caring for vulnerable or minority groups. A patient decision aid (DA) on postpartum contraception that women use during pregnancy may be an effective strategy for improving ...Read more >

We propose a partnership between the University of Chicago and the ACLU of Illinois to convene an interdisciplinary team on religious health systems in the Chicago metropolitan area. We will conduct background research and develop a subsequent project aimed at investigating the impact of religiously-affiliated hospital system policies on the provision of sexual and reproductive ...Read more >

Objectives: This project explored the reproductive health of Rohingya women and girls in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and documented their experiences accessing sexual and reproductive health services in Malaysia. Areas of interest included contraception, abortion, sexual and gender-based violence, and adolescent reproductive health. We also interviewed key informants about Rohingya women’s experiences in Malaysia and mapped ...Read more >