Complex Family Planning
Organizations and Podcasts on Abortion Care
A Black Abortion Provider’s Perspective on Post-Roe America | NEJM
The End of Roe v. Wade — States’ Power over Health and Well-Being | NEJM
The Fight for Abortion is a Fight Against Racism, Sexism and Capitalism – The Multiracial Unity Blog
Reproductive Justice with SisterSong, SisterSong is the largest national multi-ethnic Reproductive Justice collective with a purpose to build a network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities, The Beauty of Reproductive Justice Video by Sistersong
Decolonizing Contraception, Decolonizing Contraception is a UK based organization with aims to tackle racial and other intersectional justices around contraception while fighting for sexual and reproductive rights of BIPOC.
At Liberty- How Reproductive Justice is Part of an Anti-Racist Agenda,An interview with Renee Bracey Sherman, the founder of We Testify, an organization dedicated to telling the stories of people who have had abortions.
RePROs Fight Back: Reproductive Justice, An interview with Heidi Williamson from In Our Own Voice: The National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda discusses the importance of reproductive justice and how it works with reproductive health
Misogyny and Women’s Health: Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Grimes (UNC OBGYN faculty and abortion rights activist) at the University of Wisconsin.
General Articles
Contraception Equity for Black Women: An article on access and utilization of contraception by Black women
Dobbs Decision is an Assault on Human Rights – RHEDI
Evolving the Preconception Health Framework: This article describes a novel “Reproductive and Sexual Health Equity” framework, focusing on structural differences and access.
Norplant: A New Contraceptive with the Potential for Abuse, This article discusses the history of Norplant contraception and its prior use as a tool to control reproductive freedom, specifically for women of color. Incentivization and coercion for women to use LARC such as Norplant impose on bodily autonomy and the historical context of this should be taken into consideration when counseling patients.
Racism in Family Planning Care, A brief article touching on the history of racism in family planning and how it continues to impact patient care today. This article outlines steps providers can take to acknowledge unconscious bias, improve how they counsel patients and work towards reproductive health equity and justice.
“We’re a Little Biased”: Medicine and the Management of Bias through the Case of Contraception: Understanding these bias management strategies reveals provider-held biases, how they manifest within appointments, and the potential consequences for patients’ health autonomy.
Journal Articles
Provider Bias in Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Promotion and Removal: Perceptions of Young Adult Women | AJPH | Vol. 106 Issue 11, This study explores patient experiences and perspectives of provider bias and pressures relating to the use of LARC.
Do Racial and Ethnic Differences in Contraceptive Attitudes and Knowledge Explain Disparities In Method Use?, A survey of 1,800 unmarried women and men found Black women and Latinas were more likely to believe that the government uses birth control to limit minority populations that minorities and the poor are used as guinea pigs to test methods, than white women.
True Choice in Reproductive Care: Using Cultural Humility and Explanatory Models to Support Reproductive Justice in Primary Care, This perspective article addresses the multidimensional aspect of reproductive justice and how physicians can incorporate cultural humility into the discussion in the clinical setting. This article offers a few cases at the end for discussion and practice.
Refusals by pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception: A critique, 2006, This report responds to incidences of pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions written for emergency postcoital contraceptives. Arguments are made against allowing pharmacists to dispense or not dispense medications to patients based on their values and opinions, as this is harmful to public welfare.
Recommendations for intrauterine contraception: a randomized trial of the effects of patients' race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, They found low socioeconomic status Latinas and Blacks were more likely to have intrauterine contraception recommended than low socioeconomic status whites, suggesting that providers may have biases about intrauterine contraception or make assumptions about its use based on patient race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
Disproportionate Sterilization of Latinos Under California's Eugenic Sterilization Program, 1920-1945.,This study examines the racial dynamics of California’s eugenics program, the largest in the US when it was implemented after 1909. The authors analyze data from the program to quantify how Latinx individuals were affected compared to Californians of other origins, and conclude that Latinx men and women were disproportionately recommended to undergo sterilization.
Family planning for urban slums in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of interventions/service delivery models and their impact: This review aimed to identify existing interventions and service delivery models for providing FP services in slums, and as well examine potential impact of such interventions and service delivery models in low- and middle-income settings.