🎊 GOOD NEWS🎊 A Kansas state court struck down abortion restrictions designed to make it harder to provide and access care. ANSIRH's Dr. Katrina Kimport provided testimony that was pivotal to the court's ruling. Abortion remains protected in Kansas! www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-pare...

Abortions are a normal, essential part of reproductive health care. Many people who have an abortion are already parents or decide to have children later in their lives.

We know that medication abortions and contraceptives are safe. The data proves it. We know that access to abortion allows people to build lives and families on their own terms. The data proves it. Everything else is fearmongering meant to limit people’s options.

Centering the voices of people who have sought abortion care later in pregnancy, & drawing on research, this guide explains who gets later abortions, plus why & how restrictions have harmful effects that fall mainly on young women, low-income women & women of color.

What to Know About Later Abortions: Myths, Barriers and Patient Stories

Later abortion is one of the most stigmatized and least understood aspects of reproductive health, and yet some of the voices perpetuating that stigma come from inside the reproductive rights…

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Over 300 reproductive health researchers have filed an amicus brief to the Fifth Circuit, which summarizes scientific evidence demonstrating that medication abortion with mifepristone is safe and effective.

Hundreds of Scientists Urge Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to Uphold Evidence-based Access to Medication Abortion

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court sent Louisiana v. FDA back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for consideration of the merits of Louisiana's claims, which aim to reinstate a nationwide…

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Alcohol consumption during pregnancy can be harmful to fetuses, but targeting, shaming, or punishing pregnant women who drink alcohol is not supported by evidence. Evidence-based policy protects health — stigma harms health.

Why Alcohol Policies Should Target Alcohol — Not Pregnant Women

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy can be harmful to fetuses, but targeting, shaming, or punishing pregnant women who drink alcohol is not supported by evidence.

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In a digital landscape crowded with misinformation about reproductive health, reliable information about the topic can be surprisingly difficult to find. "Repro Questions ANSIRH'ed" aims to cut through the noise. Check out our new podcast:

Repro Questions ANSIRH'ed: The Latest on Abortion and Reproductive Science

Science Podcast · Welcome to Repro Questions ANSIRH'ed: The Latest on Abortion and Reproductive Science! We are a group of faculty and staff at the University of California, San Francisco, in the…

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Using data from the Abortion Facilities Database, researchers found the Dobbs decision led to increases to travel times for abortion care at or after 14 weeks, especially in places with abortion bans. This is exasperating existing barriers & inequalities. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

Abortion is a safe, common health care service to end a pregnancy. One in four women will have an abortion by the age of 45.

Your reason for having an abortion is good enough. You know what is best for you and your future.

Banning abortion has serious economic consequences. The Turnaway Study found that people who are denied abortions are less likely to have enough money to cover expenses like food, housing, and transportation even years later.

Abortions are a normal, essential part of reproductive health care.

Feelings of regret after an abortion are rare. The majority of #TurnawayStudy participants reported feeling relief even years after their abortion.

Over one in four abortions in the U.S. now occur via telehealth, not because of politics, but because data supports its safety and patients choose it.

If Blanche’s DOJ ultimately reinterprets the Comstock Act to prohibit mailing abortion medication nationwide, it could prevent people in states with abortion bans from receiving abortion pills through the mail to end their pregnancies safely at home.

Todd Blanche Suggests He Is Open to Using the DOJ to Restrict Mailing the Abortion Pill

Todd Blanche agrees during his confirmation hearing to review using the 1873 Comstock Act to stop mifepristone from being sent through the mail.

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We have over 100 studies that prove that abortion pills, including mifepristone, are extremely safe. We can’t stand by as anti-abortion groups continue to undermine established science.

Medication abortion care is popular. There is growing public support for over-the-counter access and advance provision for medication abortion, particularly among those living in states with abortion restrictions.

Despite what anti-abortion activists claim, abortion pills are extraordinarily safe. The real danger is the disinformation and junk science designed to create a culture of fear around basic health care.

Medication abortions can be taken safely at home, meaning that patients can be surrounded by loved ones, in their pajamas, receiving essential health care.

Mifepristone is used for abortion care in over 60% of all clinic-accessed abortions. Abortion is essential, normal health care.

The FDA first approved mifepristone 25 years ago. The attempt to block access to mifepristone is about limiting abortion access and controlling patients. It has nothing to do with science.

Discovering a pregnancy in the second trimester, or even later, happens more often than commonly believed: One in 13.5 pregnancies are discovered after 12 weeks, and one in 475 pregnancies after 20 weeks.

What to Know About Later Abortions: Myths, Barriers and Patient Stories

Later abortion is one of the most stigmatized and least understood aspects of reproductive health, and yet some of the voices perpetuating that stigma come from inside the reproductive rights…

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Political agendas have no place in abortion clinics. Political agendas have no place at your OB-GYN’s office. Political agendas have no place in the emergency room.

Access to abortion care gives people the freedom to build lives on their own terms. The Turnaway Study found that women who were able to get abortions were twice as likely to achieve educational and career goals as women who were denied abortion care.

Medication abortion can also treat unresolved miscarriages. “We will always continue to need access to mifepristone and misoprostol, even in a place where abortion is regulated more heavily," said ANSIRH's Lauren Ralph.

Kansas AG’s proposed restriction on mifepristone would impact more than abortion patients

TOPEKA — Janice Powers treats her hormonal disorder with the abortion pill that Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and attorneys general from other states want to regulate as a water…

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Criminalizing abortion care hurts everyone, even people who lose a wanted pregnancy. Anti-abortion advocates are known to stigmatize and criminalize women for their pregnancy outcomes – including miscarriage.

Mifepristone, one of the two drugs commonly used together in a medication abortion, is very safe and effective. The attempt to block access to mifepristone is about limiting abortion access and controlling patients. It has nothing to do with science.

Abortion care should be guided by evidence, not politics.

Abortion bans deepen economic inequality. Abortion bans deepen economic inequality. Abortion bans deepen economic inequality.

Statistically speaking, someone important to you has had an abortion. Nearly one in four women in the United States will have an abortion by age 45, along with many trans and non-binary people.