Contraception
Volume 67, Issue 4 , Pages 287-294 , April 2003

Early abortion services in the United States: a provider survey

  • Janie Benson

      Affiliations

    • Ipas, 300 Market Street, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-919-960-5594; fax: +1-919-929-0258.
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  • Kathryn Andersen Clark

      Affiliations

    • Department of Maternal and Child Health and Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 7590, 725 Airport Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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  • Ann Gerhardt

      Affiliations

    • National Abortion Federation, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036, USA
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  • Lynne Randall

      Affiliations

    • CAPS (The Consortium of Planned Parenthood Abortion Providers), 21-A 9th Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33705, USA
    • ,
  • Susan Dudley

      Affiliations

    • National Abortion Federation, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036, USA

Received 8 April 2002 ,Revised 13 September 2002 ,Accepted 5 November 2002.

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PII: S0010-7824(02)00512-7

doi: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00512-7

Contraception
Volume 67, Issue 4 , Pages 287-294 , April 2003

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