Contraception
Volume 82, Issue 2 , Pages 129-130 , August 2010

Bringing evidence to the debate on abortion coverage in health reform legislation: findings from a national survey in the United States

  • Kathryn A. Phillips

      Affiliations

    • Center for Translational and Policy Research in Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS Center), Department of Clinical Pharmacy, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94142, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS Center), School of Pharmacy, Institute for Health Policy Studies, and UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0613, USA. Tel.: +1 415 502 8271; fax: +1 415 502 0792.
    • ,
  • Daniel Grossman

      Affiliations

    • Ibis Reproductive Health, Oakland, CA, USA
    • Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Tracy A. Weitz

      Affiliations

    • Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • ,
  • James Trussell

      Affiliations

    • Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Received 1 February 2010 ,Accepted 22 February 2010.

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☆ Sources of Support: funded partially by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The funding organization had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data and approval of the manuscript. The views presented are solely the opinions of the authors.

PII: S0010-7824(10)00061-2

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.02.017

Contraception
Volume 82, Issue 2 , Pages 129-130 , August 2010

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