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ANSIRH research: Policy

The Abortion Facility Standards Initiative (AFSI) brings new research to the issue of facility standards for abortion provision. AFSI seeks to ground public and policy debate about abortion facility standards in solid evidence and genuine public health approaches so that standards in this field are based on science, not politics.

Alcohol and Pregnancy Policy Study.

ANSIRH is working collaboratively with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) and the Alcohol Research Group (ARG) to assess intended and unintended effects of state-level policies targeting alcohol use during pregnancy and whether effects vary by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES).

Evaluation of Abortion Restrictions Project.

ANSIRH’s Evaluation of Restrictions Project aims to examine the effects of state-level abortion restrictions on women’s lives and to identify strategies to mitigate the negative impacts. The project started in 2013 and has so far conducted research in seven states and evaluated the effects of a variety of restrictions. We continue to identify states and restrictions to evaluate.

Health Workforce Pilot Project (HWPP) /AB 154.

On January 1, 2014, California enacted legislation (AB 154) culminating a decade worth of work to expand the pool of safe, qualified professionals authorized to provide early abortion care.

Nearly half of the countries with liberal or liberally interpreted abortion laws had public funding for abortion, including most countries that liberalized their abortion law in the past 20 years. Outliers remain, however, including among developed countries where access to abortion may be limited due to affordability.

Reproductive Health in Religious Hospitals.

About 75% of religious hospitals are Catholic. Catholic facilities adhere to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services which prohibit abortion, contraception (including tubal-ligation), infertility treatment and more. Catholic hospitals treat 1 out of 9 acute care patients in the United States.

Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP).

In 2011, and again in 2013, the Texas Legislature passed sweeping legislation impacting reproductive health in Texas, which has a population of 5.4 million women of reproductive age.

Banner image (cropped): Photo courtesy of former California Speaker of the Assembly, John Pérez (pictured center) announcing CA law AB 154, allowing nurse midwives, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants to perform abortions, a change that drew heavily on ANSIRH research.

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