Scientific abstracts

The Society of Family Planning (SFP) is delighted to host its Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA, from October 19–21, 2019. This meeting brings together a community of family planning scholars, clinicians, partners and leaders. Participants represent a broad range of disciplinary and specialty backgrounds and are united by a shared commitment to just and equitable abortion and contraception, informed by science. The Annual Meeting features presentations of unpublished research, clinical practice updates, and thought-provoking breakout sessions that increase engagement with the most current evidence and give us the tools to make a difference in the medically, socially, and politically complex sphere of family planning. A total of 336 scientific abstracts were submitted this year by 1163 investigators working around the world. These abstracts were reviewed by a panel of 69 family planning experts and scored according to a rubric that included methodology, originality, significance, and potential impact. The Scientific Abstract Working Group then additionally evaluated the abstracts which scored highly on all these criteria, and chose 20 for oral presentation. An additional 109 abstracts will be presented in the poster sessions.