1. Early national trends in non-abortion reproductive care access after Roe
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Junying Zhao, Aaron Zahn, Samuel C. Pang, Tony S. Quang, Janis Campbell, and Perry N. Halkitis
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Roe v. Wade ,Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ,reproductive health services ,abortion clinics ,Title X entities ,artificial reproductive technology clinics ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
BackgroundRoe was overturned in 2022. No peer-reviewed evidence exists for the indirect spillover effects of overturning Roe on non-abortion reproductive care access for diverse patient populations.MethodsNational data were from 2013–2023 HHS Title X Directory, 2013–2020 CDC Artificial Reproductive Technologies (ART) Surveillance and 2021–2023 manual collection, and Guttmacher Institute. Outcome measures included numbers of ART clinics and Title X entities. Title X entities are those that receive federal funds to establish and operate voluntary family planning projects, especially for low-income patients. We reported pre-and post-Roe changes, associations between changes in measures and abortions, and characteristics of changed measures by region and political geography.ResultsPost-Roe America witnessed national declines of 1.03% in ART clinics and 18.34% in Title X entities, and average state decreases of 0.08 ART clinics (p
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- 2024
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