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Exploring provider preference and provision of abortion methods and stigma: Secondary analysis of a United Kingdom provider survey.

Katy FootmanSuzanna BrightJayne KavanaghEmma ParnhamLouise BuryLesley Hoggart
Published in: Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health (2024)
Most surveyed UK abortion providers prefer to offer both methods, but over half only provide medication abortion. This may reflect patients' preferences for medication abortion, and health system and legal constraints on instrumentation abortion. Addressing these systemic constraints on method provision could expand patient choice. Providers' method preference was not significantly associated with provider stigma but future research should consider the influence of structural stigma on method provision at the health system level.
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