ANSIRH publications

• Berg JA, Taylor D, Woods NF; Women’s Health Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing. January–February 2013. Where we are today: prioritizing women's health services and health policy. A report by the Women's Health Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing. Nursing Outlook 61(1):5-15.
• Cockrill. Kate, Ushma D. Upadhyay, Janet Turan, Diana Greene Foster. June 2013. The Stigma of Having an Abortion: Development of a Scale and Characteristics of Women Experiencing Abortion Stigma. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 45(2):79–88.
• Foster DG; Kimport K, Gould H; Roberts SC, Weitz, TA. January 2013. Effect of abortion protesters on women's emotional response to abortion. Contraception 87(1):81-7..
• Foster, Diana Greene, Loren M. Dobkin; Ushma D. Upadhyay. January 2013. Denial of abortion care due to gestational age limits. Contraception 87(1):3-5.
• Gerdts C, Vohra D, Ahern J. 2013. Measuring Unsafe Abortion-Related Mortality: A Systematic Review of the Existing Methods. PLoS ONE 8(1): e53346. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053346
• Joffe C. January 2013. The Politicization of Abortion and the Evolution of Abortion Counseling. American Journal of Public Health, 103(1):57-65.
• Joffe C. Winter 2013. Roe v. Wade and Beyond: Forty Years of Legal Abortion in the United States. Dissent, 60(1):54-59.
• Jones, Rachel K., Ushma D. Upadhyay, & Tracy A. Weitz. May 2013. At What Cost? Payment for Abortion Care by U.S. Women. Women’s Health Issues 23-3 (2013) e173–e178.
• Kimport, Katrina. 2013. Marrying for the Kids: Gender, Sexual Identity, and Family in Same-sex Marriage, in Marla H. Kohlman, Dana B. Krieg, Bette J. Dickerson (ed.) Notions of Family: Intersectional Perspectives (Advances in Gender Research, Volume 17), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.67-88
• Taylor, Diana, Debbie Postlethwaite, Sheila Desai, E. Angel James, Amanda W. Calhoun, Katharine Sheehan, and Tracy A. Weitz. Multiple Determinants of the Abortion Care Experience: From the Patient’s Perspective. American Journal of Medical Quality, April 14, 2013. [Epub ahead of print].
• Weitz TA; Taylor D, Desai S, Upadhyay UD, Battistelli MF, Waldman J, Drey EA. January 2013. Safety of Aspiration Abortion Performed by Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives and Physician Assistants under a California Legal Waiver. American Journal of Public Health [Epub ahead of print].

• Baralt, Lori, and Tracy A. Weitz. November 2012. The Komen–Planned Parenthood Controversy: Bringing the Politics of Breast Cancer Advocacy to the Forefronts. Women's Health Issues 22(6):e509-e512.
• Berg, Judith A; Olshansky, Ellen; Shaver, Joan; Taylor, Diana; Fugate Woods, Nancy. May 2012. Women’s health in jeopardy: Failure to curb unintended pregnancies: A statement from the AAN Women’s Health Expert Panel. Nursing Outlook
  60(3):163-4.
• Biggs MA, Foster DG. May 2012. Misunderstanding the Risk of Conception from Unprotected and Protected Sex. Womens Health Issues, 2012 Dec 8. [Epub ahead of print].
• Biggs MA, Karasek D, Foster DG. May 2012. Unprotected Intercourse among Women Wanting to Avoid Pregnancy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Beliefs. Womens Health Issues 22(3):e311-8.
• Fogel, Susan Berke and Tracy A. Weitz. August 2012. “The limits and potential of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in promoting women’s health.” Reproductive Laws for the 21st Century Papers. Washington, DC: Center for Women Policy Studies .
• Foster, Diana Greene; Gould, Heather; Taylor, Jessica; Weitz, Tracy A. June 2012. Attitudes and Decision Making Among Women Seeking Abortions at One U.S. Clinic. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 42(2):117-24.
• Foster, Diana Greene; Heather Gould, Katrina Kimport. 2012. How women anticipate coping after an abortion. Contraception, in press.
• Freedman, Lori R. & Debra B. Stulberg. December 2012. Conflicts in Care for Obstetric Complications in Catholic Hospitals. AJOB Primary Research,18 Dec 2012 [posted online ahead of print].
• Freedman, Lori and Tracy A. Weitz. January 2012. The Politics of Motherhood Meets the Politics of Poverty. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 41(1):36-42.
• Goldstein, Rachel L., M.D.; Upadhyay, Ushma D., Ph.D., M.P.H.; Raine, Tina R., M.D., M.P.H. 2012. With Pills, Patches, Rings, and Shots: Who Still Uses Condoms? A Longitudinal Cohort Study. Journal of Adolescent Health, in press.
• Gould H, Perrucci A, Barar R, Sinkford D, Foster DG. 2012. Patient Education and Emotional Support Practices in Abortion Care Facilities in the United States. Women’s Health Issues, 2012 May 18. [Epub ahead of print].
• Joffe C, Parker WJ. July 2012. Editorial: Race, reproductive politics and reproductive health care in the contemporary United States. Contraception, 86(1):1-3.
• Kimport, Katrina. May 2012. (Mis)Understanding Abortion Regret. Symbolic Interaction, in press. (Watch short video of Dr. Kimport introducing her research.)
• Kimport, Katrina. 2012. Organizational Dominance and its Consequences in the Online Abortion Rights and Antiabortion Movements. In Jennifer Earl, Deana A. Rohlinger (ed.) Media, Movements, and Political Change (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 33), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.139-161.
• Kimport, Katrina. 2012. Remaking the White Wedding? Same-Sex Wedding Photographs’ Challenge to Symbolic Heteronormativity. Gender & Society, August 8 2012 [Epub ahead of print].
• Kimport, Katrina, Kate Cockrill & Tracy A. Weitz. February 2012. Analyzing the impacts of abortion clinic structures and processes: A qualitative analysis of women’s negative experience of abortion clinics. Contraception 85(2):204-10.
• Kimport, Katrina, Felisa Preskill, Kate Cockrill, & Tracy A. Weitz. November 2012. Women’s Perspectives on Ultrasound Viewing in the Abortion Care Context. Women’s Health Issues 22(6):e513-e517.
• Levi, Amy; Angel James, Evelyn; Taylor, Diana. Midwives and Abortion Care: A Model for Achieving Competency. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health 57(3):1542-2011.
• Morse, Jessica; Freedman, Lori; Speidel, J. Joseph; Thompson, Kirsten M.J.; Stratton, Laura; Harper, Cynthia C. June 2012. Postabortion Contraception: Qualitative Interviews On Counseling and Provision of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 42(2):100-6.
• Roberts SC, Avalos LA, Sinkford D, Foster DG. August 2012. Alcohol, tobacco and drug use as reasons for abortion. Alcohol and Alcoholism [Epub ahead of print].
• Roberts, Sarah C.M. July 2012. Macro-level gender equality and alcohol consumption: A multi-level analysis across U.S. states. Social Science & Medicine 75(1):60-8.
• Upadhyay, UD. 2012. Addressing reproductive autonomy to prevent repeat unintended pregnancy. Contraception, in press.
• Upadhyay, UD, Brown BA, Sokoloff A, Raine TR. January 2012. Contraceptive discontinuation and repeat unintended pregnancy within 1 year after an abortion. Contraception, 85(1):56–62.
• Upadhyay, UD, Karasek D. “Women’s Empowerment and Ideal Family Size: An Examination of DHS Empowerment Measures In Sub-Saharan Africa.” International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 2012, 38(2):78-89.
• Weitz, Tracy. Fall 2012. “Producing and Mobilizing Science to Oppose Abortion Rights in the United States.” Western Humanities Review (Western Humanities Alliance Special Issue—Health Rights at the Crossroads: Women,N ew Science, and Institutional Violence) 2012, LXVI(3): 103-117.
• Weitz, Tracy A, and Katrina Kimport. 2012. A Need to Change Our Thinking about ‘Repeat’ Abortions. Contraception, in press.

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• 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.
• McLemore, Monica, Amy Levi. November/December 2011. Nurses and Care of Women Seeking Abortions, 1971 to 2011. ournal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 40(6):672–677.
• O’Donnell, Jenny; Tracy A. Weitz; Lori R. Freedman. November 2011. Resistance and vulnerability to stigmatization in abortion work. Social Science & Medicine, 73(9): 1357–1364.
• Raine TR, Foster-Rosales A,Upadhyay, UD, Boyer CB, Brown BA, Sokoloff A, Harper CC. February 2011. One-year contraceptive continuation and pregnancy in adolescent girls and women initiating hormonal contraceptives. Obstet Gynecol., 117(2 Pt 1):363-71.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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