There’s a lot going on in the abortion policy landscape. Here at UW CORE, Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, we are keeping track of the current policies, and will continue to provide updates should these policies …
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Contraceptives’ Effects on Sexual Experiences Play a Huge Role in Satisfaction, Study Finds
Sexual acceptability – how birth control methods affect users’ sexual well-being – is likely an important component of contraceptive satisfaction, but hasn’t been systematically examined until now. Dissatisfaction with a contraceptive method leads many people …
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy in Wisconsin: Opportunity to Expand Access by Enabling Family Planning Providers to Bill Medicaid
There is an opportunity in Wisconsin to expand access to gender-affirming care for low-income, transgender people in our state. Rachel Dyer, a CORE researcher and a PhD student in the UW-Madison Department of Counseling Psychology, …
CORE’s Survey of Doctors Highlights Widespread Support for Abortion Access
Our recent series of studies here at UW CORE, Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, document overwhelming support of abortion services among faculty physicians at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. More than three-quarters of …
New CORE study documents serious financial barriers to abortion care
CORE researchers published an innovative new paper that finds that cost is one of the largest obstacles to abortion care in the U.S. The new study was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research …
CORE Publishes New Brief on Texas’s Abortion Ban—and What It Means for Wisconsin
We invite you to read and share the latest CORE Brief, “The New Texas Abortion Ban and Its Implications for Wisconsin.” Why does Texas SB 8 matter to Wisconsin? A similar ban would essentially stop …
Reddit data provides new source for exploring how people make decisions about their abortions – New AJOG Publication
A new article published by CORE Researchers Laura Jacques, MD, Emma Carpenter, PhD, Taryn Valley, MA, Barbara Alvarez, MS, and Jenny Higgins, PhD, MPH was recently published in the prestigious American Journal of Obstetrics and …
Reproductive Health Impact Study: Wisconsin Data Shows Decrease in Number of Contraceptive Patients Served by Title X-Funded Clinics
Researchers at the Guttmacher Institute, a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, have been working on a multiyear state-based study, and Wisconsin is one of the states …
Congratulations to Dr. Jill Denson on completing her PhD!
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jill Denson, who successfully defended her PhD this week at the Zilber School of Public Health at UW-Milwaukee.
When it comes to contraceptive use, sexual impacts matter: CORE director Jenny Higgins and colleagues publish new study in JAMA Internal Medicine
This week CORE Director Jenny Higgins and colleagues published a new article in JAMA Internal Medicine, titled “Association Between Patients’ Perceptions of the Sexual Acceptability of Contraceptive Methods and Continued Use Over Time.” “Our study shows that people’s sexual experiences of their contraceptive method seem to matter a lot in whether people like their method and use it over time. It’s important that we pay more attention to sexual acceptability in our contraceptive research, clinical care, and education,” Dr. Higgins said.