Instructions and information to provide medication abortion patients with prior to your phone visit. Can be used with the Telehealth Care for Medication Abortion Protocol and the Telehealth Care for Medication Abortion Workflow.
Written by Chelsea Faso, M.D. Reproductive coercion is defined as behaviors or policies that interfere with decision-making about contraception and pregnancy. In the US, clinicians have often been complicit in implementing and enforcing reproductive oppression and coercive practices, sending and reinforcing the message: certain groups of people are more fit to parent than others. This…
Written by Angeline Ti, MD, MPH The experience of pain combines cognitive, emotional, and sensory components, and is often a complex interaction between a person’s past experiences, current state of mind, and what nerves are being irritated. While there are a variety of pharmacologic options for pain control with IUD insertions, there are also non-pharmacologic…
Elena’s Aspiration Abortion is a zine that walks through one person’s experience with abortion options counseling and having a manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) in primary care, with their usual clinician.
Do hormonal contraceptives cause weight gain? One survey of American women indicated that concern about weight gain was the most common single reason for discontinuing combined OCPs.