Drug Topics January 20, 2025
A conversation with Antonia Biggs, PhD, professor and acting director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Since the constitutional right to abortion was overturned in the Supreme Court’s ruling of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022, 12 states have banned abortions altogether and several others have implemented bans based on gestational duration.1 However, recent research has shown that national support for and personal interest in expanded access to medication abortion has increased across the country.
The study, which was published in JAMA Network Open, issued surveys to over 10000 people before and after Dobbs who were assigned female at birth and were between 15 to 49 years...