 It is time to integrate abortion into primary careS. Yanow American Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 103, issue 1, 14-16 Abstract: The Roe v Wade decision made safe abortion available but did not change the reality that more than 1 million women face an unwanted pregnancy every year. Forty years after Roe v Wade, the procedure is not accessible to many US women. The politics of abortion have led to a plethora of laws that create enormous barriers to abortion access, particularly for young, rural, and low-income women. Family medicine physicians and advanced practice clinicians are qualified to provide abortion care. To realize the promise of Roe v Wade, first-trimester abortion must be integrated into primary care and public health professionals and advocatesmust work to remove barriers to the provision of abortion within primary care settings. Copyright © 2012 by the American Public Health Association®. Keywords: article; female; first trimester pregnancy; health care delivery; human; integrated health care system; legal abortion; legal aspect; politics; pregnancy; primary health care; unwanted pregnancy, Abortion, Legal; Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; Female; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Politics; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Trimester, First; Pregnancy, Unwanted; Primary Health Care (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2012.301119_9 Access Statistics for this article American Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Alfredo Morabia More articles in American Journal of Public Health from American Public Health Association |
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