Adolescent Medicine
Advocacy
Community Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Public Health
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Julia Raney, MD (she/her/hers)
Fellow
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
San Francisco, California, United States
Sara Buckelew, MD (she/her/hers)
Professor of Pediatrics
UCSF
San Francisco, California, United States
Atsuko Koyama, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)
Clinical Assistant Professor
University Arizona College of Medicine
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Marissa Raymond-Flesch, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
San Francisco, California, United States
Workshop
Description: Post-Roe, 26 states are expected to heavily restrict or ban abortions, a critical component to reproductive freedom. New abortion restrictions will compound well-documented challenges that youth, Black, and LatinX pregnant people already face in accessing safe abortions including cost, transportation, parental notification requirements, and confidentiality concerns. To promote health equity and reproductive freedom, it is critical that pediatric clinicians i) advocate for safe abortion access for their patients and ii) expand their medical training in abortions. Facilitators from high access and low access abortion states will review opportunities for pediatric providers to promote safe abortions in open and restrictive policy settings. This session includes a brief assessment of learners’ practice settings and review of reliable resources to assist them in staying current with quickly evolving policies. Next, we will discuss new guidelines of low-touch medication abortions. Learners will then break into small groups to engage in case-based discussions of options counseling in early pregnancy. We will then review self-managed abortions so that clinicians may appropriately counsel about this option (ie what to expect and how to protect oneself from criminalization). As a group, we will then review a case study of how the UCSF Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine Clinic began providing medication abortions. We will then break out into small groups, divided by low and high access states, to brainstorm implementation steps. Next, as experienced reproductive justice advocates, we will support participants in creating advocacy engagement at many levels. We will conclude with an interactive goal setting group activity.