Sentences with phrase «medication abortion providers»

In 2012, Arizona, Michigan and Virginia took steps to establish stringent regulations that affect only surgical and medication abortion providers, but not other providers of outpatient surgical and medical care.

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Abortion pills are fine with me but I don't automatically equate my employer with the «provider of all my medications» as some of you apparently do.

The 2011 law requires providers to stick to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for abortion by medication.

The committee also reviewed the evidence on what clinical skills are necessary for health care providers to safely perform the various components of abortion care, including pregnancy determination, counseling, gestational age assessment, medication dispensing, procedure performance, patient monitoring, and follow - up assessment and care.

Interventions are needed to expand access to abortion services through better equipping existing facilities, ensuring adequate and continuous supplies of medication abortion drugs, and by increasing the number of trained providers.

Boonstra HD, Medication abortion restrictions burden women and providers — and threaten U.S. trend toward very early abortion, Guttmacher Policy Review, 2013, 16 (1): 18 — 23.

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Because of the FDA's announcement, abortion providers in these states will no longer be forced to provide medication abortion according to an outdated regimen that the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists agree is inferior.

The Arizona legislature recently enacted a law requiring abortion providers to follow an outdated FDA protocol for medication abortion that is more than 15 years old — and the governor signed it just days after the FDA updated its protocol.

In Arizona, the legislature has amended state law to require that providers follow the regimen outlined on the old label for medication abortion, regardless of scientific evidence and the new FDA - approved label.

This update poses the biggest benefit for women in Ohio, Texas and North Dakota, where restrictions have compelled health care providers to use the outdated, inferior, and less effective regimen when prescribing medication abortion.

The proportion of U.S. contraceptive users relying on LARCs jumped from 2.4 % in 2002 to 14.3 % in 2014, the highest level ever recorded in the United States.9 There is also some evidence that LARCs are highly desired by many abortion patients and that patient interest increases when LARCs are available for immediate postabortion initiation.1, 11,12 Notably, all contraceptive methods, including LARCs, are appropriate for immediate uptake following a surgical abortion.13 In addition, recently updated medical guidelines support providing implants and injectable contraception at the time of a medication abortion, along with previously available methods like the pill, patch and ring; the IUD is now the only method that providers can not offer on the day medication abortion is started.14 This broader array of options is particularly significant given that medication abortion represents an increasing proportion of all abortions nationally.