The latest report from #WeCount, a national effort to count the number of clinician-provided abortions in the United States each month, documents the increasingly important role of medication abortion care provided via telehealth.
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Green named CORE Training Hub Advisor
Tiffany Green, PhD, associate professor in the UW-Madison Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Population Health Sciences, was recently named Training Hub Advisor for the UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE). The Training Hub is …
Welcome Taehyun Kim, postdoctoral scholar
CORE is delighted to introduce a new member of our team — Taehyun Kim, postdoctoral scholar. Kim recently completed a PhD in Health Policy and Management from the University of Maryland, where she studied contraceptive …
Study: Abortion restrictions threaten miscarriage management for hundreds of thousands of Americans
A recent study from CORE researchers, led by Jenna Nobles, finds that every single year in the United States, pregnant people experience more than 1 million miscarriages, with nearly 400,000 of those miscarriages occurring in …
New CORE brief explores Dobbs decision’s impact on the ob-gyn workforce in Wisconsin
A new CORE brief presents evidence that the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision may worsen access to obstetricians-gynecologists (ob-gyns) in Wisconsin and nationwide. A related one-page snapshot summarizes …
UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity update on Wisconsin Supreme Court advancing two abortion lawsuits
Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that it would hear two lawsuits related to the right to abortion care in the state. One case, filed by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, challenges the 1849 …
Two years after Dobbs, abortion is available in Wisconsin, but restrictions are fierce
Today marks the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the federal right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade five decades ago. Each U.S. state now determines the legality …
UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity update on Supreme Court preserving access to abortion medication mifepristone
Today the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that would have made mifepristone, a widely used abortion medication, less accessible. Mifepristone remains available for abortion care in the U.S. under current FDA rules in states that …
New CORE brief presents evidence on crisis pregnancy centers’ operations and impact in Wisconsin and beyond
Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) often present themselves as healthcare clinics but their primary goal is to dissuade pregnant people from having abortions. A new CORE brief summarizes the available evidence on CPCs’ operations and impact in Wisconsin and beyond.
The harms of gestational age abortion bans
Wisconsin lawmakers have proposed a new bill, AB 975, to ban abortion after 14 weeks of pregnancy. Evidence shows that abortion bans at any point in pregnancy harm pregnant people in need of care. While …