Abortion counseling.

Counseling, consulting, and consent: abortion and the doctor-patient relationship.

Being in the room: reflections on pregnancy options counseling during abortion training.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Residency Review Committee requires that family medicine residents learn options counseling for women with unintended pregnancies. This qualitative study identifies important domains for future formal evaluations of pregnancy options counseling by exploring the relevant benefits reported by residents who underwent routine abortion training. To our knowledge, this i...

The Impact of State Mandatory Counseling and Waiting Period Laws on Abortion: A Literature Review

n As of January 2009, 24 states require that women must receive counseling with certain state-specified information and then wait, usually for 24 hours, before an abortion can be performed. n A literature search identified 12 studies of the impact of mandatory counseling and waiting period laws. n The clearest documented impact was obtained from analyses of Mississippi's mandatory counseling an...

Predictors of abortion counseling receipt and helpfulness in the United States.

BACKGROUND Little is known about women's expectations, needs, and experiences with abortion counseling and the factors that influence their experiences. METHODS This study sought to investigate individual- and facility-level factors that influenced women's reports of receiving abortion counseling and the helpfulness of counseling. Data were drawn from quantitative interviews with 718 patients...

Understanding women's desires for contraceptive counseling at the time of first-trimester surgical abortion.

OBJECTIVE The objective was to investigate whether or not women presenting for a first-trimester surgical abortion want to discuss contraception on the day of their procedure. STUDY DESIGN Between October 2012 and January 2013, an anonymous self-administered survey was distributed to women receiving first-trimester surgical abortions at four northern California family planning clinics. The su...