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The Bixby Center’s Uta Landy, PhD and Jody Steinauer, MD, MAS were recently invited by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to a meeting addressing the lack of abortion training and services in the UK, especially for dilation and evacuation procedures.

To mark the launch of his new book, Life’s Work, Dr. Willie J. Parker spoke at an event co-hosted by the Bixby Center, ANSIRH and UCSF Students for Choice.

A number of recent federal policy proposals imperil public funding for family planning providers. A recent study highlights how cuts may also harm a lesser-known but vital service that these providers offer: insurance enrollment support.

In a recent review article and Guardian op-ed, ANSIRH’s Daniel Grossman, MD outlined the necessary steps and compelling reasons to make medication abortion available over the counter.

"What are the implications, for our health, for civil rights and human rights, and for the status of women in our society, when a woman is arrested because a pregnancy ended?"

"From a purely medical perspective, it no longer makes sense to demonize women’s safe use of abortion medications at home – just as the abortion rights movement should no longer rely on rhetoric around returning to the days of coat-hanger abortions," writes Daniel Grossman, MD in an op-ed.

Congratulations to Carole Joffe, PhD and Alissa Perrucci, PhD, MPH, both of whom won distinguished awards at the 2017 National Abortion Federation (NAF) annual meeting.

In a new study, ANSIRH's Katrina Kimport examines the ways in which the work of avoiding pregnancy falls disproportionately on the shoulders of women.

Op-ed by Christine Dehlendorf, MD makes the case for investing more, not less, in the innovative federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which is facing a 50 percent budget cut.

A study finds that during contraceptive counseling visits, clinicians normalized and legitimized women assuming the mental and emotional burdens of contraception.