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Abortion is an extremely safe procedure. Our researchers analyzed health data from over 50,000 abortion procedures: 96.7% of patients had NO complications. Only 3% experienced a minor complication Only 0.3% experienced a serious complication

ANSIRH's Daniel Grossman & Texas Policy Evaluation Project's Kari White: "The Biden administration has an opportunity to ensure that one’s ability to obtain abortion care is unencumbered by restrictions that are out of step with scientific evidence and contribute to disparities in access."

ANSIRH researchers recently found that 99% of women who had an abortion say their decision was the right one 5 years later. Read the groundbreaking article that was just named The Society of Family Planning 's most-talked-about abortion publication of 2020: http://bit.ly/39mu1DV

NEW in JAMA: Research from Texas Policy Evaluation Project and ANSIRH's Daniel Grossman found that abortions declined in Texas after the state's governor issued a COVID-19 order that caused appointment delays and cancelations for abortion patients. Full article: http://bit.ly/3orxdEN

"Abortion is an incredibly common and safe medical procedure. But if you learned about abortion only from movies and TV, that’s not the story you’d see. For the last 8 years, we’ve been studying onscreen depictions of abortion. We’ve found that Hollywood tends to dramatically exaggerate the medical risks associated with abortion while downplaying real barriers to access."

"One quarter of cisgender women will get an abortion in their lifetime in the United States, but just under 25 percent of obstetricians provide abortion care. This grave discrepancy exists partly because it is so difficult to obtain training in abortion care." ANSIRH's Chris Ahlbach

ANSIRH's Diana Greene Foster: "If abortion was no longer constitutionally protected at a national level, some states would make it illegal, and women in those states would have a lot harder time accessing care."

37 states require minors to involve a parent in their abortion, and in all but one, they can seek a judicial bypass instead. However, our newest research found that the judicial bypass process significantly delays adolescents' ability to access abortion care: https://bit.ly/3iJfHIi

"The story of medication abortion over the past 20 years in the United States is largely a success story, but it’s also a story of disparity...the patients most affected by restrictions on medication abortion are majority low-income or people of color, and three-quarters live at or below 200% of the poverty line. Those are the patients who have to confront these obstacles."

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the FDA's approval of mifepristoneAKA the abortion pillfor use in abortion care! A full review of the evidence by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found that medication abortion is both extremely safe and highly effective. Get the facts: bit.ly/2VeDmYg

It's World Contraception Day! Oral contraceptives are among the best-studied and safest medications on the market, and research shows that interest in over-the-counter access to birth control pills is high: https://bit.ly/3i0AjwD

ANSIRH's Sarah Roberts on Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP laws): "Laws that require abortions to be performed in ASCs (ambulatory surgery centers) are NOT based in scientific evidence and do not protect patient safety."

ANSIRH's Dr. Daniel Grossman on the dubious science of anti-abortion activists: "Their arguments may sound scientific to a layperson, but they’re relying on either poorly done studies or outdated data.

"We know from more than 20 years of research that mifepristone is extremely safe...Pregnancy and childbirth aren’t safer than abortion. Childbirth is 14 times more likely to end in death [than abortion is]."

Pregnant people deserve dignity and respect in childbirth. A study published last year by Monica McLemore and colleagues found that 1 in 6 women report that they were mistreated during labor & delivery.

ANSIRH's Diana Greene Foster: "When the government takes an active role in trying to prevent people from getting abortions, it has serious consequences for their lives for their physical health, for their economic well-being and for their life trajectory."

"Research has shown strong associations between disrespectful care from health systems and providers and poor reproductive health outcomes. The association between institutionalized and internalized racism and the health of Black women is clear."

One in every six patients gets their care at a Catholic hospitalbut many patients don't know that these institutions generally won't provide contraception, postpartum sterilization, abortion, or gender-affirming hysterectomies: https://bit.ly/2zVsbMx