Objectives: to review the literature to quantify the risk of major adverse events linked to contraceptive methods and pregnancy; to supplement these findings using analyses from a large insurance claims database; to create a Markov model predicting risk of adverse events, and to develop a prototype smartphone app as a prototype that could serve as ...Read more >

The majority of all abortions in developing countries are performed in unsafe or illegal conditions, the consequences of which can be severe—including infection, infertility, and death. To understand the use and sequelae of illegal abortion and the effects of access to safe abortion services, a prospective longitudinal study of women with unwanted pregnancies is needed. ...Read more >

Objectives: When contraceptive and abortion care are separated, women having abortions may not tell their separate contraceptive provider about their method failure and abortion. We examined abortion disclosure rates to contraceptive providers, reasons for abortion nondisclosure, and factors associated with disclosure. Study Design: We conducted a voluntary, anonymous, self-administered survey of 202 women seeking medical ...Read more >

Objectives: In the US, the proportion of abortions taking place during the second trimester has consistently remained around 10%. There is little information on women’s experiences with second-trimester abortion care, or abortion providers’ experiences with offering second-trimester abortion care. We aimed to collect detailed data on women’s and providers’ experiences with second-trimester abortion and to ...Read more >

Over half of women who obtained an abortion in 2014 were in their 20s. 66% of women who obtained an abortion that year had some college education or a college degree, and 91% of those 20 or older had graduated high school. This data show that many women who obtain abortions attend college. However, no ...Read more >

Phase 1 of this project is a secondary data analysis of a subset of questions from an NIH-funded study designed to examine drug use in rural Appalachian women recruited from jails. We propose examining a subset of previously unanalyzed questions in the categories of (a) risky sexual behaviors, (b) pregnancy and abortion history, (c) contraceptive ...Read more >

Restrictions on abortion access, coverage, and funding in this hostile political climate create substantial barriers for women attempting to receive abortion care. These barriers disproportionately affect low-income women and people of color, but the full impact of financial barriers to abortion access remains unknown and innovative methodologic thinking is sorely needed. Traditional clinic-based study-designs suffer ...Read more >

Background: Despite availability of modern contraception, many women remain at risk for unintended pregnancy throughout sub-Saharan Africa due to unmet need for modern contraception. While we have data about general barriers to contraceptive use among non-users of contraception, we lack evidence about factors for each specific method that prevent non-users from using and motivate users ...Read more >

Objectives: Abortion providers are commonly depicted as dangerous and callous which generates distress for providers, undue fear among patients, and restrictive legislation. We hypothesized that disrupting these stereotypes could reduce medical marginalization for providers and decrease abortion stigma. We created a short documentary film with the aim of disrupting negative stereotypes, and we developed and ...Read more >

While access to family planning services, including highly effective contraceptive methods, has expanded significantly as a result of the Affordable Care Act, access to family planning services remains limited for certain populations, including new immigrants. This project seeks to examine the factors influencing Latino immigrants’ access to family planning services in South Carolina. The state ...Read more >