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Recent media coverage on later abortion

Texas clinics say later abortions rose after state's temporary ban
Gutierrez T
August 12, 2020 ...read more
Abortion providers are acting as travel agents. That's wrong.
Cohen D, Joffe C
March 25, 2020 ...read more
Wyoming Republicans attack later abortion care: Spotlight on the states
Carter D
March 16, 2020 ...read more
Senate Republicans go all-in on lies about later abortion care
Yurcaba J
February 12, 2020 ...read more
Dear Trump: Stop using children as your anti-choice political prop
Alexandria P
February 6, 2020 ...read more
Trump's 'cynical ploy' on later abortion in State of the Union
Carter D
February 5, 2020 ...read more
The desperate trail to safe-haven abortions in Colorado
Schmidt M
January 6, 2020 ...read more
Indie abortion clinics can't be replaced, but they're dying out
Solis M
December 23, 2019 ...read more
Mississippi's ban on abortions at 15 weeks gets shut down second time
Quinlan C
December 14, 2019 ...read more
Lifesaving treatment for babies born at 22 weeks doesn’t mean abortion law should change
Wilkinson D
October 25, 2019 ...read more

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Recent research

Contextualizing Medicaid reimbursement rates for abortion procedures.
Contraception, Mar 2020
Author(s): Young YY, Thompson TA, Cohen DC, Blanchard K
Surgical or medical abortion of pregnancies between 13+0 and 23+6 weeks' gestation? A systematic review and new NICE national guidelines.
BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, Mar 2020
Author(s): Schmidt-Hansen M, Lohr PA, Cameron S, Hasler E
Pain management for medical and surgical abortion between 13 and 24 weeks gestation: A systematic review.
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mar 2020
Author(s): Jackson E, Kapp N
Maternal and procedural factors associated with estimated blood loss in second trimester surgical uterine evacuation: A retrospective cohort analysis
International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia, Mar 2020
Author(s): Bridges KH, Wolf BJ, Dempsey A, Ellison WB, Williams DY, Wilson SH
Re: Management of patients with placenta accreta spectrum disorders who underwent pregnancy terminations in the second trimester: A retrospective study.
European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Mar 2020
Author(s): Lo TK
Reply to Letter to the Editor entitled 'Re: Management of patients with placenta accreta spectrum disorders who underwent pregnancy terminations in the second trimester: A retrospective study'
European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Mar 2020
Author(s): Ou J, Peng P, Teng L, Li C, Liu X
Second-trimester abortion attitudes and practices among maternal-fetal medicine and family planning subspecialists.
BMC Women's Health, Feb 2020
Author(s): Kerns JL, Turk JK, Corbetta-Rastelli CM, Rosenstein MG, Caughey AB, Steinauer JE

About the Initiative

The Later Abortion Initiative (LAI), a project of Ibis Reproductive Health, will change the conversation around later abortion and the women who need this service. LAI particularly focuses on the increased stigma, challenges and barriers for women who need abortions after 18 weeks.

A note on terminology and “late-term abortion”

The terminology used to discuss abortions after the first trimester varies enormously. There is no agreement in the law or in the medical community about what constitutes the limit of the second trimester, for example. In scholarly journals, these abortions are variously referred to as “mid-trimester abortion,” “second-trimester abortion” (which is used to describe abortions up to 24 weeks or up to 27 weeks, depending on the writer or the state law) and late abortion. Within the mainstream media, the phrase “late-term abortion” is often used in articles about abortion policy and advocacy. These competing terms do not provide accurate clinical descriptions or contribute to public knowledge about abortion care and the differences at various stages of gestation. It is for this reason that we do not use the phrase “late-term abortion” here, and recommend against its use. Instead, we use and recommend the phrase “later abortion” to identify any pregnancy termination after 18 weeks of gestational age.

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