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		<title>African Americans and abortion: An intriguing poll</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2013/02/african-americans-and-abortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carole Joffe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans appears to be in a period of heightened support for abortion, as revealed in a number of recent national polls. In contrast to earlier polls, which typically showed the country split nearly 50-50 on the abortion question, exit polling on election day 2012 showed a considerably more lopsided degree of support for legal abortion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a pregnancy goes wrong in Catholic hospitals</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2013/02/pregnancy-in-catholic-hospitals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Freedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a woman chooses a physician for pregnancy care, she&#8217;s often visualizing her baby&#8217;s birth. Will this doctor have the best skills and bedside manner to help with the delivery? If she&#8217;s high risk, does the doctor have extra training for that as well? Rarely do prenatal patients ask: If something goes terribly wrong, will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Tiller</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2013/01/after-tiller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen Sisson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Tiller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[later abortion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ansirh.org/?p=2497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After Tiller opens with Dr. George Tiller talking about risk, and follows with the 911 call from his assassination on the steps of his church. This is the story of abortion providers with which most people are familiar, one of threat and violence. Sundance Film Festival attendees were reminded of this last Friday before we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Alabama Supreme Court decision: Will it make delivering appropriate health care to pregnant women more difficult?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2013/01/alabama-supreme-court-decision-to-jeopardize-appropriate-health-care-for-pregnant-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ansirh.org/?p=2457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Alabama Supreme Court recently decided that pregnant women can be prosecuted under a law intended to protect children from methamphetamine labs. Much of the resulting discussion has focused on the implications for “personhood” and on other instances in which women have been punished and prosecuted for their behavior while pregnant. Outrage at these prosecutions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roe v Wade, California abortion law, HWPP #171, and the future of access</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2013/01/roe-v-wade-california-abortion-law-hwpp-171-and-the-future-of-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Weitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newly published landmark study by ANSIRH demonstrates that trained nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants match physicians in the safety of aspiration abortions they provide. We hope that these results will give policymakers the evidence they need to move beyond physician-only restrictions in order to enable more women to have their reproductive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the Turnaway Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Barar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ansirh.org/?p=2371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Claire Schreiber and Michaela Ferrari interviewing Turnaway Study participants by phone. Almost seven years ago, Dr. Eleanor Drey, the Medical Director of the Women’s Options Center at San Francisco General Hospital, asked the question “what happens to the women we turn away because they are too far along in their pregnancies to have an abortion?” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the 2012 election and abortion</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2012/11/2012-election-and-abortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carole Joffe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ansirh.org/?p=2351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The abortion rights community is immensely relieved at the results of the recent election. President Obama&#8217;s victory means, first and foremost, that the Supreme Court at the very least will retain its present ideological spread for the foreseeable future. The vacancy nominations that Obama will put forward will undoubtedly be individuals who will uphold Roe v [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Turnaway Study—seeking innovative ways to fund rigorous research</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2012/10/crowdfunding-the-global-turnaway-study/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ansirh.org/2012/10/crowdfunding-the-global-turnaway-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Gerdts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ansirh.org/?p=2324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As traditional funding streams become more and more limited, researchers at ANSIRH are pioneering an effort by the University of California, San Francisco, to harness the power of crowdfunding and social media to help spark innovative, important research. Today, ANSIRH launched the first UCSF crowdfunding campaign for a new, important study about the experiences of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Anything 46 million women do every year can’t be immoral:” Reflections from FIGO</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2012/10/reflections-from-figo/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ansirh.org/2012/10/reflections-from-figo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Weitz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ansirh.org/?p=2308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I had the opportunity to attend the tri-annual meeting of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in Rome, Italy. Despite being on the last day of the conference and running opposite two other panels addressing abortion, our session on abortion stigma was well-attended. My co-panelists, brought together by International Planned Parenthood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing the right to abortion later in pregnancy</title>
		<link>http://blog.ansirh.org/2012/08/losing-the-right-to-abortion-later-in-pregnancy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ansirh.org/2012/08/losing-the-right-to-abortion-later-in-pregnancy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yanow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While access to abortion is increasingly restricted in many states, options for women needing an abortion after 20 weeks have narrowed dramatically. In April 2010, Nebraska became the first state in the country to pass a restriction on abortion after 20 weeks, based on an unscientific claim that fetuses feel pain after 20 weeks gestation. [...]]]></description>
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