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abortion restrictions

Abortion is restricted in many areas of the world, rather than being treated as the safe, relatively simple medical intervention that it is. Abortion restrictions include legal limits, religious prohibitions, financial expenses, and/or punitive policies such as bans on particular types of abortion, limits according to fetal gestational ages, or denials of insurance coverage.

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Abortion History among Hawaiʻi's Indigenous People

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For centuries, Native Hawaiian healers treated abortion as a core part of normal health care. In 1970, Hawai'i was the first U.S. state to legalize abortion.

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How Medical Providers are Navigating the Post-Roe Abortion Landscape

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How do doctors navigate abortion care in states with abortion bans and restrictions?

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Pregnancy as a Crime Post-Dobbs: A Preliminary Report

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Fetal personhood laws and other abortion restrictions play a significant role in the criminalization of pregnancy.

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Why Access to Abortion Care Matters for Black Maternal Health

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Attacks on our reproductive choices are costing the lives of Black women and birthing people of color. This report from the Black Maternal Health Federal Policy Collective highlights the importance of accessible abortion care and the need to protect our right to abortion.

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Race, PCOS, and Reproductive Justice

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PCOS is a reproductive justice issue. Racism, sexism, stress, and trauma all contribute to Black women's disproportionately high rates of PCOS, as well as whether Black women even get diagnosed correctly, and the treatment we receive

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How Big Tech Censors Abortion Information (and what we can do about it): A Conversation with Erin Matson

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How does abortion information get censored online? Erin Matson discusses how censorship and misinformation campaigns and how they affect people seeking quality abortion care.

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The United States of Abortion Mazes

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This interactive resource uses mazes as a visual tool to make abortion access easier to understand, state by state.

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Effect of Abortion Restrictions on Medical Providers

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How do abortion bans lead to deteriorating access to maternity care and other health care? Medical students are decreasingly applying for residency in states with abortion restrictions. Health care providers are also leaving those states.

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Deepening the Divide: Abortion Bans Further Harm Immigrant Communities

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Abortion bans criminalize immigrant communities and make it more difficult for immigrants in detention to receive timely reproductive health care. This fact sheet discusses why, and how we can improve immigrants' access to services.

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Jailed and Pregnant: What the Roe Repeal Means for Incarcerated People

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What are the consequences of the Dobbs decision on incarcerated people? This Q&A fact sheet reviews the availability of reproductive health care in prisons and jails.

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Abortion Access for People with Disabilities

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Personal stories illustrate the effects of abortion bans on people with disabilities, and on their families.

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Quiz: Can You Answer These Sex Ed Questions?

A map of states with abortion restrictions and abstinence only sex education curriculums

An interactive sexual education quiz and map