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4070.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Over the past four years, access to safe and legal abortion services has become limited due to at least three reasons: the physicians who are trained and willing to perform surgical abortions are aging and not being replaced; legal constraints have increased, and the antiabortion people have used fear to discourage physicians from becoming abortion providers. Since access to abortion becomes more important as chosen family size decreases, it is important that this trend be reversed. This session, The Struggle to Maintain or Expand Access to Safe Abortion Services in the U.S., focuses on what has been achieved recently to make safe abortion services available to all women who need them in the United States. | |||
| Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. know the importance of unrestricted access to safe, legal abortion in the United States 2. understand ways of increasing access to abortion services 3. doubt the present administration's tactics to give misinformation about reproductive health 4. comprehend the importance of increasing the number of providers of abortion services | |||
| Richard Grossman | |||
| Obtaining an abortion in the United States: Reasons and process Lawrence B. Finer, PhD | |||
| New tactics to discourage women's use of reproductive health services: Use of scientific research and technology Jo L. Sotheran, PhD | |||
| Increasing access by expanding knowledge: The Medical Abortion Education Project Susan Eisendrath, MPH, Ann Gerhardt, MPH, Tori Lallemont, Shana Brown, MPH, Alyssa Lederer | |||
Progress in establishing abortion training in family practice residency programs ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Joan Fleischman, MD, MPA, Ian Bennett, MD, PhD, Abigail Calkins Aguirre, MPA | |||
| Expanding the pool of abortion providers with family physicians Linda W. Prine, MD, Christi Ray, MPH, MD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||