4070.0 Family planning: Reproductive health justice

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Given the social justice theme of this year’s conference, this session focuses on family planning within the lens of reproductive justice. Family planning encompasses all the decisions women face with regard to preventing pregnancy, deciding when to get pregnant, whether to continue a pregnancy, how to space pregnancies, as well as decisions regarding a pregnancy and birth. This session examines family planning across spectrum, specifically the barriers women face accessing reproductive health services. Specific topics include: access to over-the-counter emergency contraception, access to abortion, research on outcomes associated with the use midwives and out-of-hospital birthing for a vaginal birth after cesarean, as well as the political landscape surrounding the National Family Planning Program (called Title X).
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss issues related to access to emergency contraception and abortion. 2. Identify outcomes associated with the use of certified professional midwives for planned vaginal births after cesarean. 3. Describe the political factors that challenge the implementation of the Title X program.
Moderator:
Marya Shegog, PhD, MPH

8:30am
Evolving availability of over-the-counter emergency contraception in Tampa pharmacies: A reproductive health justice concern
Hollie J. Fuhrmann, MA and Kathleen Brelsford, MA
  
8:50am
Exploring the political contexts that have challenged the National Family Planning Program (Title X) over the past four decades: Oral histories with key stakeholders in Florida
Cheryl A. Vamos, PhD, MPH, Ellen Daley, PhD, MPH, Karen Perrin, PhD, Charles Mahan, MD, Eric R. Buhi, MPH, PhD, CHES and Marilyn Myerson, PhD
9:10am
Social and economic injustice: Access to abortion for poor women in the United States
Karen S. Leiter, JD, MPH, Jinna Halperin, MPH, Jennifer Mondino, Michelle Movahed, JD and Cynthia Soohoo, JD
  
9:30am
Out of hospital births with Utah licensed Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs): Outcomes of planned vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)
Vivian Giles, MPH, CPM and Susan C. Forster-Cox, PhD, MPH, CHES
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Women's Caucus
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Latino Caucus, Maternal and Child Health, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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