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Access to Contraceptives in Countries With Restrictive Abortion Laws: The Case of Brazil

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: We aimed to determine whether current contraceptive use is affected by a history of abortion for women from a country with abortion-restricted laws. This is an analysis of 2006 Brazil Demographic and Health Survey. Nonpregnant women whose first pregnancy occurred in the previous 5 years were selected for this study (n = 2,181). We used propensity score matching to compare current contraceptive use among women with induced or spontaneous abortion and women with no abortion. We found differences in the use, but women with a history of abortion did not report more effective contraceptive than women with no abortion, as we expected.

Source: Health Care For Women International

DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2015.1055746

Authors: Ana Luiza Vilela Borges, Amy Ong Tsui, Elizabeth Fujimori, Luiza Akiko Komura Hoga

Institutions: Universidade de São Paulo, Johns Hopkins University

Language: English

Topic: Reproductive Health and Contraception

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development