In the aftermath of an assault, and as they work to heal from a trauma, victims deserve reliable and affordable health care,
especially access to contraceptives, STI testing and other preventative care.
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especially, scaling up, and integrating HIV with sexual and reproductive health services, such as the various education and information platforms, condom programming and
access to contraceptive services.»
Because of an increasingly restrictive legal environment and clinic closures across the country, abortion patients are facing new barriers
to care, including the need
to travel greater distances
to access services.2, 20 Overcoming these challenges can be difficult or impossible,
especially given that 75 % of abortion patients are low - income, and 59 % have already had a child and may have other family obligations.21 Whether a provider offers same - day
contraceptive services is irrelevant if a patient can not
access abortion care in the first place.