Alexandra Thompson
Fri, 18 December 2020
Around 7% of women in the US attempt a “self-managed abortion” at some point in their life, research suggests.
“Increasing evidence” has highlighted the extent of expecting mothers who try to terminate their pregnancy “outside the formal healthcare system”.
Continued: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/7-us-women-attempt-self-abortion-160005797.html
By Mahima Negi
December 9, 2020
A population-based study was published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health aimed to document ‘trends and inequalities in the prevalence of adolescent motherhood across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).‘
The results of this study will help in supporting the adolescent sexual and reproductive health target in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Mon, 11/09/2020
LAWRENCE — Abortions have decreased significantly this year, due largely to pandemic-related factors. But other veiled influences stemming from state-related policies have affected this number in surprising ways.
“We found that foot traffic to abortion clinics went down substantially,” said David Slusky, De-Min and Chin-Sha Wu Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Kansas. “And then in states that limited elective medical procedures, it went down even further. But once you account for both of those two things, we do not see a third decrease for the states that said, ‘Abortion counts as elective surgery.’”
UBC-led study offers lessons for other nations on deregulating mifepristone
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Research News
NEWS RELEASE 14-SEP-2020
Removing restrictions on how mifepristone--the medical abortion drug--can be prescribed and dispensed in Canada greatly improved access to abortion, especially in rural communities across the country.
That's one of
the key findings of new University of British Columbia-led research published
today in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Continued: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/uobc-ero090920.php
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
BY FRANK NEWPORT
Black Americans have become more likely to support abortion rights over the past decade, and they are now as likely as non-Black Americans to say that abortion is morally acceptable and slightly more likely to support legal abortion in all circumstances. This marks a significant change from the situation 15 to 20 years ago for Black Americans, while attitudes among the rest of the U.S. population have stayed relatively constant.
Continued: https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/318932/black-americans-abortion.aspx
PTI, New Delhi
AUG 31 2020
An estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 due to sex-selective abortions, according to a study that projects the highest deficits in the birth of girls will occur in Uttar Pradesh.
Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Universite de Paris, France, noted that there has been a reported imbalance in India in the sex ratio at birth (SRB) since the 1970s due to the emergence of prenatal sex selection and the cultural preference for male babies.
08.25.2020
Each year in Kenya, more than 2,500 women and girls die from unsafe abortions—despite the fact that the government legalized abortion under specific circumstances a decade ago in its Constitution. Currently, unsafe abortions are a leading cause of maternal mortality, especially among low-income women.
Today, on the 10th anniversary of the Kenyan Constitution, the Center has published a new report, A Decade of Existence, Revealing Progress, Reversal, and Betrayal of a National Compromise, which details how the government’s failure to uphold its constitutional obligations has harmed its citizens.
Continued: http://reproductiverights.org/kenya-constitution-abortion-report
For five years, a team of researchers asked women about their experience after having—or not having—an abortion. What do their answers tell us?
By Margaret Talbot
July 7, 2020
There is a kind of social experiment you might think of as a What if? study. It would start with people who are similar in certain basic demographic ways and who are standing at the same significant fork in the road. Researchers could not assign participants to take one path or another—that would be wildly unethical. But let’s say that some more or less arbitrary rule in the world did the assigning for them. In such circumstances, researchers could follow the resulting two groups of people over time, sliding-doors style, to see how their lives panned out differently. It would be like speculative fiction, only true, and with statistical significance.
A remarkable piece of research called the Turnaway Study, which began in 2007, is essentially that sort of experiment.
Continued: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-study-that-debunks-most-anti-abortion-arguments
New research calls for relaxation of abortion
care laws in Britain and the USA
29 June, 2020
Experts from The University of Manchester and The University of Bristol are
calling for permanent laws allowing so-called ‘pills by post’ abortion services
to be enacted in Great Britain and the USA, in order to address barriers to
care highlighted by the coronavirus crisis.
Measures taken in response to the pandemic
have had an unprecedented impact on people’s daily lives, and their access to
healthcare – the lockdown has caused clinics to close due to a lack of staff,
childcare and public transport to be less available, and has made people more
reluctant to visit healthcare settings.
Continued: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/new-research-calls-for-relaxation-of-abortion-care-laws/
Mobile phone among women linked to higher
contraception use
Access to mobile phones is associated with
multiple indicators linked to global social development, such as good health,
gender equality, and poverty reduction, said the study.
By AuthorIANS
Published: 26th Jun 2020
Mobile phone use among women is associated with increased use of contraception,
lower gender inequality, and lower maternal and child mortality, according to a
new study which covered 209 countries.
The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of the
Sciences, showed that giving women access to information they otherwise would
not have, mobile phones are transforming lives.
Continued: https://telanganatoday.com/mobile-phone-among-women-linked-to-higher-contraception-use
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