Collaborative for Reproductive Equity

Updates from CORE

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  CORE update: Medication abortion access, legal challenges, and evidence

  On May 14, the U.S. Supreme Court maintained access to the abortion medication mifepristone through telehealth. The action pauses, for now, a lower-court ruling that would have blocked mail orders for mifepristone and required in-person visits with clinicians for medication abortion nationwide.

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  CORE is hiring a program coordinator

  CORE seeks a program coordinator to provide administrative, operational, and communications support — an outstanding opportunity for an organized, detail-oriented, and proactive individual who loves keeping teams organized and systems running smoothly.

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  Study details what helps — and hinders — abortion access in Wisconsin after Dobbs

  New research based on 42 interviews with pregnant Wisconsinites highlights key factors that impede or enable abortion access. Three emerged as particularly powerful and potentially addressable in influencing access: finances and insurance coverage, state abortion restrictions, and patient navigation services.

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  Study links abortion restrictions to rise in intimate partner violence

  A new study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers finds that state abortion restrictions enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision are linked to higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV). The analysis estimates that near-total abortion bans and increased travel distance to care contributed to about 9,000 additional incidents of IPV among women in affected states.

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  Abortion care in Wisconsin: New data shows growing role of telehealth

  The latest report from #WeCount, a national effort to count the number of clinician-provided abortions in the United States, documents that abortion numbers continue to rise in both Wisconsin and the U.S., and telehealth is playing a growing role, with about one third of recent abortions for Wisconsin residents delivered by out-of-state shield law providers.

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