Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 5 , Pages 379-384 , May 2009

Changes in abortion provider practices in response to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003

  • Lisa Haddad

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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  • Susan Yanow

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Health Consultant, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 492 1155; fax: +1 732 907 1813.
    • ,
  • Laurent Delli-Bovi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    • ,
  • Kate Cosby

      Affiliations

    • Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94612, USA
    • ,
  • Tracy A. Weitz

      Affiliations

    • Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94612, USA

Received 31 August 2008 ,Revised 6 November 2008 ,Accepted 17 November 2008.

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☆ This research was partially funded by a David and Lucile Packard Foundation award to the University of California, San Francisco.

PII: S0010-7824(08)00538-6

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.11.010

Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 5 , Pages 379-384 , May 2009

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