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The role of abortion care education and training in advancing scope of practice for certified nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners and physician assistants;
Key legal barriers for provision of abortion by Advanced Practice Clinicians
Why clinician scope of practice matters for reproductive health.

Other recent publications and papers by staff and faculty

2011

Foster, D; R. Barar, H. Gould, T. Weitz. September 2011. “Effect of clinic protesters on women's emotional response to abortion.” Contraception 84(3):303.
Foster DG, Higgins JA, Biggs AM, McCain C, Holtby S, Brindis CD. “Willingness to Have Unprotected Sex.” Journal of Sex Research 2011:1-8.
Foster, Diana Greene; Hulett, Denis; Bradsberry, Mary; Darney, Philip; Policar, Michael. March 2011. “Number of Oral Contraceptive Pill Packages Dispensed and Subsequent Unintended Pregnancies.” Obstetrics & Gynecology 117(3):566-572.
Joffe, Carole . September 2011. Working with Dr. Tiller: Staff Recollections Of Women’s Health Care Services of Wichita. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 43(3): 199–204. Posted with the permission of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Kimport, Katrina, Alissa Perrucci & Tracy A. Weitz. December 2011. Addressing the Silence in the Noise: How Abortion Support Talklines Meet Some Women's Needs for Non-Political Discussion of Their Experiences. Women & Health (online).
Kimport, K., Foster, K. and Weitz, T. A. June 2011. Social Sources of Women's Emotional Difficulty After Abortion: Lessons from Women's Abortion Narratives. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 43: 103–109.
Levi, A. and K. Q. Dau. November/December 2011. “Meeting the National Health Goal to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy.” Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 40(6): 775-781.
Taylor, D. November/December 2011. “Reframing Unintended Pregnancy Prevention: A Public Health Model.”Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 40(6): 782-793.
Taylor, D. and E. A. James. November/December 2011. “An Evidence-Based Guideline for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention.”Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 40(6): 773-774.

2010

Cockrill K and Weitz TA. 2010. Abortion Patients’ Perceptions of Abortion Regulation. Women’s Health Issues 20:12-19
Dobkin, Loren. June 7, 2010. “Perspectives: Nursing Health Care.” KQED Radio.
Fogel, Susan Berke and Tracy A. Weitz. 2010. Health Care Refusals: Undermining Quality Care for Women. Los Angeles, CA: National Health Law Program.
Foster, DG, Raine, TR, Brindis, CD, Rostovtseva, D, Darney, PD. “Should providers give women advance provision of emergency contraception pills? A cost effectiveness analysis.” Women’s Health Issues 20(4): 242-247.
Freedman, Lori R., Uta Landy, Philip Darney and Jody Steinauer. 2010. “Obstacles to the Integration of Abortion Into Obstetrics and Gynecology Practice.” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 42(3).
Freedman, Lori R., Uta Landy, and Jody Steinauer. 2010. “Obstetrician-gynecologist experiences with abortion training: physician insights from a qualitative study.”Contraception, 81(2010):525-530.
Joffe, Carole. May 24, 2010. “Anti-Choice Woman-Hating Goes Mainstream.” RH Reality Check.
Joffe, C and Weitz TA. 2010. Abortion Attitudes and Availability, Contexts 9(2):64-65.
Phillips KA, Grossman D, Weitz, TA, Trussell J. August 2010. Bringing evidence to the debate on abortion coverage in health reform legislation: findings from a national survey in the United States. Contraception, 82(2010):129–130.
Taylor, Diana, Amy Levi, and Katherine Simmonds. May 2010. “Reframing Unintended Pregnancy Prevention: A Public Health Model.” Contraception, 81(2010):363-366.
Upadhyay, UD, Cockrill, K, Freedman, L. December 2010. Informing Abortion Counseling: An Examination of Evidence-based Practices Used in Emotional Care for Other Stigmatized and Sensitive Health Issues. Patient Education and Counseling.
Upadhyay, UD, Karasek D. “Women's Empowerment and Achievement of Desired Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa.” USAID DHS Working Papers 2010:1-38.
Wallace, Robin R.; Suzan Goodman; Lori R.Freedman; Vanessa K. Dalton; and Lisa H. Harris. December 2001. “Counseling women with early pregnancy failure: Utilizing evidence, preserving preference.” Patient education and counseling. 81(3):454-61.
Weitz, Tracy. “Wanting Abortion to be More Accessible Rather than More Rare or Less Needed.” Women's Health Activist Newsletter, September/October, 2010. (For a more in-depth look at this topic, see Weitz, TA. 2010, below.)
Weitz, Tracy A. “Misusing Science Risks Women’s Health: Nebraska Lawmakers Manufacture Scientific Controversy to Forward an Anti-Abortion Agenda.” Science Progress, April 28, 2010.
Weitz, TA. 2010. Rethinking the Mantra that Abortion Should be “Safe, Legal, and Rare.” Journal of Women’s History 22(3):161-172.
Weitz, TA. 2009. What Physicians Need to Know about the Legal Status of Abortion in the United States. Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2009:52(2):130-139.
Weitz, Tracy Ann and Kate Cockrill. 2010. "Abortion clinic patients’ opinions about obtaining abortions from general women’s health care providers." Patient Education and Counseling 81:409–414.
Weitz, Tracy A and Susan Berke Fogel. 2010. "The Denial of Abortion Care Information, Referrals, and Services Undermines Quality Care for U.S. Women." Women’s Health Issues 20:7-11.

2009

Gultiano, S, Hindin, M, Upadhyay, U. December 2009. Marital Status and Psychological Well-Being of Filipino Women. Philippine Population Review. 8(1)16-33.
Joffe, Carole. 2009. “Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Joffe, Carole. Summer 2009. “Hard Times=Hard Choices.” MsMagazine.com.
Joffe, Carole. October 06, 2009. “What Health Care Reform Could Be for Women’s Health.” BeaconBroadside.com.
Joffe, C and Weitz TA. November 10, 2009. The Assassination of Dr. Tiller: The Marginality of Abortion in American Culture and Medicine, Dissent online.
Jones, Bonnie Scott, and Tracy A. Weitz. 2009. “Legal barriers to second-trimester abortion provision and public health consequences.” American Journal of Public Health 99(4):623-30.
Levi, Amy J., Katherine E. Simmonds, and Diana Taylor. September 2009. “The Role of Nursing in the Management of Unintended Pregnancy.” Women’s Health, 44(3):301-14.
Levi, A, Simmonds, K, Taylor, D. (2009). The role of nursing in the management of unintended pregnancy. Nursing Clinics of North American, 44(3):301-314.
Taylor, Diana, Barbara Safriet, and Tracy Weitz. January 2009. “When Politics Trumps Evidence: Legislative or Regulatory Exclusion of Abortion From Advanced Practice Clinician Scope of Practice.” Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, 54(1):4-7.
Taylor D, Safriet B, Dempsey G, Kruse B, Jackson C. Providing abortion care: A professional toolkit for nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. San Francisco: University of California, San Francisco; 2009.
Weitz, TA. 2009. What Physicians Need to Know about the Legal Status of Abortion in the United States. Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2009:52(2):130-139.
Weitz, Tracy A, Patricia Anderson, Diana Taylor, 2009. “Advancing Scope of Practice for APCs: More than a Matter of Access.” Contraception 80:105-107.

2008

Foster, Diana Greene, M. Antonia Biggs, Lauren J. Ralph, Abigail Arons, and Claire D. Brindis. 2008. “Family Planning and Life Planning: Reproductive Intentions Among Individuals Seeking Reproductive Health Care.” Women’s Health Issues 18:351-359.
Foster, Diana Greene, Rebecca A. Jackson, Kate Cosby, Tracy A. Weitz, Philip D. Darney, Eleanor A. Drey. 2008. “Predictors of Delay in Each Step Leading to an Abortion.” Contraception 77(4):289-293.
Foster, Diana Greene, Daria P. Rostovtseva, Claire D. Brindis, M. Antonia Biggs, Denis Hulett, and Philip D. Darney. 2008. “Cost Savings From the Provision of Specific Methods of Contraception in a Publicly Funded Program.” American Journal of Public Health.
Freedman, Lori R., Uta Landy, and Jody Steinauer. 2008. “When There's a Heartbeat: Miscarriage Management in Catholic-Owned Hospitals.” American Journal of Public Health 98(10):1774-1778.
Levi, Amy. September–October 2008. “Examining Ourselves: Exploring Assumptions about Teaching Pelvic Examinations in Midwifery Education.” Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, 53(5):403-5.
Walker, Deborah S., Joan M. Visger, and Amy Levi. 2008. “Midwifery Data Collection: Options and Opportunities.” 53(5):421-429.
Weitz, Tracy A. and Susan Yanow. 2008. "Implications of the Federal Abortion Ban for Women’s Health in the United States." Reproductive Health Matters 16:99-107.
Weitz, Tracy A, Kirsten Moore, Rivka Gordon, and Nancy Adler. 2008. “You Say 'Regret' and I Say 'Relief': A Need to Break the Polemic About Abortion.” Contraception 78(2):87-9.

2007 and earlier

Dunn, Jennifer Templeton, and Rachel Bravo. 2007. “The Reality v. the Law: Abortion Access in California.” California Women Lawyers Newsletter.
Dunn, Jennifer Templeton, and Maya Manian. 2007. “Gonzales v. Carhart: A Threat to Women's Health and Reproductive Freedom.” California Women Lawyers Newsletter.
Paul, Maureen, Kristin Nobel, Suzan Goodman, Panna Lossy, Joann E. Moschella, and Hali Hammer. March 2007. “Abortion training in three family medicine programs: resident and patient outcomes.” Family Medicine 39(3):184-9.
Paul, Maureen, and Kristin Nobel. April 2005. “Papaya: a simulation model for training in uterine aspiration.” Family Medicine 37(4):242-4.

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