With this coming Tuesday marking the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I’m inspired to post this month’s column early.<\/p>\n
I encourage readers to check out the work of ANSIRH<\/a> (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health), a UCSF<\/a> research program\u00a0“dedicated to ensuring that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence.” So, rather than cover the breadth of political and social dynamics related to abortion policies, I’m focusing on one specific new study which has important implications for protecting women’s health:<\/p>\n A newly published landmark study by ANSIRH demonstrates that trained nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants match physicians in the safety of aspiration abortions they provide. We hope that these results will give policymakers the evidence they need to move beyond physician-only restrictions in order to enable more women to have their reproductive health care needs met in their local communities by health care providers they know and trust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The results of this study<\/a> are significant because PAs,\u00a0NPs and CNMs have been shown to be\u00a0important\u00a0and accessible health care providers for rural and\u00a0low-income women. ANSIRH’s\u00a0new findings support policies which would reduce\u00a0health care disparities and increase continuity of care because a\u00a0larger group of health care providers\u00a0would be able to\u00a0offer early\u00a0abortion care. For more on this topic, read the\u00a0latest post<\/a> by Tracy Weitz<\/a>, Director of ANSIRH.\u00a0\u00a0This\u00a0research should inform health policy across the U.S.<\/p>\n For more on the realities of abortion in the U.S., watch Abortion in the United States<\/a><\/em>, a short\u00a0video from the Guttmacher Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With this coming Tuesday marking the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I’m inspired to post this month’s column early. I encourage readers to check out the work of ANSIRH (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health), a UCSF research program\u00a0“dedicated to ensuring that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence.” So, rather than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21094,1],"tags":[738,21245,21395,21658,21693,21694,3290,3397,190,21925],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedside-manners","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-certified-nurse-midwife","tag-girls","tag-nurse-practitioner","tag-physicans-assistant","tag-physician","tag-pregnancy","tag-reproduction","tag-women","tag-womens-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}