Reducing stigma, improving access to abortions

There are many reasons someone might need to terminate a pregnancy.

At the moment women should be able to access medications up to nine weeks.

But in some locations and some clinics there are barriers that can significantly delay care.

How can access be improved, and why aren’t medical abortions offered beyond nine weeks?

Guest/s

• Professor Danielle Mazza, head of the department of general practice at Monash University and director of the SPHERE Centre of Research Excellence

References

• Safety and efficacy of early medical abortion at home between 10+0 and 11+6 weeks' gestation: a retrospective review