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Krista Perreira, PhD, professor in the UNC Department of Social Medicine, and colleagues at the Urban Institute found that 27.6 percent of women aged 18-44 in United States households believed that access to medical abortion was difficult and 30 percent believed that access to surgical abortion was difficult.


Krista Perreira, PhD, professor of social medicine, published an article in the American Journal of Public Health on perceived access to abortion among women in the United States. Perreira and her colleagues at the Urban Institute find that 27.6% of women aged 18-44 in U.S. households believed that access to medical abortion was difficult and 30.1% believed that access to surgical abortion was difficult. State policies restricting abortion access were associated with perceptions of reduced access to both medical and surgical abortions among women of reproductive age.

Read the article here.