Gender norms and values influence availability and accessibility of critical SRH interventions such as contraception and abortion procedures.
Enhanced collaboration among the health and FP wings in the public sector, and between public, private, and NGO sectors could facilitate the implementation of improved post-procedure contraception service delivery, particularly for abortion complication patients.
The lawsuits by Catholic institutions are not about abortion, contraception, sterilization or other procedures.
WASHINGTON -- A coalition of Roman Catholic entities in the nation's capital has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in an attempt to block the implementation of a health care reform mandate forcing the institutions to provide health insurance covering contraception and other medical procedures that run counter to church teachings.
Most respondents considered abortion as an emergency procedure, not as contraception.
They have voiced their support for measures that would restrict contraception and promote unnecessary medical procedures and cumbersome bureaucratic restrictions that would make it exceedingly difficult to obtain an abortion, which they tend to see as immoral, if not downright evil.
Furthermore, cultural and religious norms may influence the availability and accessibility of key health interventions such as contraception as well as abortion procedures.
The objective was to investigate whether or not women presenting for a first-trimester surgical abortion want to discuss contraception on the day of their procedure.
The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a "moral" objection to it.
"Now [the women] have knowledge about the procedures, and they pursue contraception out of their own choice," says Ambreen Khaskheli, a LHW.
