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• The fertility rate was stable in 2024, but it's still near record lows. NBC News. April 23, 2025.
• Changes in Ob/Gyn Clinical Workforce in States With Abortion Restrictions Post-Dobbs Decision. MedScape. March 14, 2025.

• Data shows minimal changes to OB-GYN workforce following abortion bans, but that could change, Georgia Public Broadcasting. December 24, 2024.
• No significant change in OB/GYN enrollment in states without abortion bans after Dobbs, Healio. December 23, 2024.
• Study reveals impact of Dobbs decision on OBGYN workforce in abortion ban states, Medical Xpress. December 4, 2024.
• Permanent Contraception Skyrocketed in Period Soon After the Supreme Court Decision, Contraceptive Technology Update. June 1, 2024.
• The Pill Makes Some Women Miserable. But Are They Really Quitting It en Masse? The New York Times. May 16, 2024.
• Use of Most Contraceptive Methods Declined from 2019 to 2022, Except Vasectomies, According to New Data, Patient Care. ​May 2, 2024.
• Top in women’s health: Decrease in contraceptive use; increase in perinatal PTSD diagnoses, Healio. May 2, 2024.
• Use of most contraceptive methods steadily decreased from 2019 to 2022, Healio. April 23, 2024. 
• Supreme Court likely to preserve access to abortion drug Mifepristone, Fox 5 DC. March 27, 2024.
• How a Shortage of Healthcare Workers Complicates Contraceptive Access, Upstream USA. March 11, 2024.
• Hospital maternity units are closing across Michigan, Michigan Independent. January 1, 2024.​

• Pharmacists play an important role in making contraceptives accessible, Public Health Newswire. November 15, 2023. 
• Maternal care deserts overlap with lack of abortion access, analysis shows, ABC. August 1, 2023.
• Medicaid Beneficiaries Often Lack Primary Care Access to Contraception, Especially LARC, Contraceptive Technology Update. July 1, 2023.​
• As Laws Restricting Health Care Surge, Some US Physicians Choose Between Fight or Flight, JAMA Medical News. May 17, 2023.
• Missouri is one of the deadliest states for giving birth. Its abortion ban may make that worse, KCUR. March 12, 2023.
• Changes in the Clinical Workforce for Contraception and Abortion Care, Contemporary OBGYN. January 6, 2023.
• Reproductive Health Workforce May Look Different in 10 Years, Contraceptive Technology Update. January 1, 2023. 
• What Will Happen to the Reproductive Healthcare Workforce?, Contraceptive Technology Update. January 1, 2023. 

• ​U.S. seeing loss of physicians providing contraceptive services, study suggests, Healthcare Dive. November 1, 2022. 
• Abortion Care Workforce Faces Biggest Crisis in Five Decades, Contraceptive Technology Update. September 1, 2022. 
• Analysis: The Long-lasting Health Care Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade, Spectrum News. June 24, 2022.
• The Reversal of Roe v. Wade Will Make Abortion More Expensive and Harder to Access, Marketplace. June 24, 2022.
• Some Clinics are Bracing for a Huge Influx of Patients if Roe v. Wade is Overturned, NPR. May 19, 2022.
• Roe v Wade Reversal Would Rock Ob/Gyn Residencies, Medscape. May 4, 2022. 
• Birth control methods inaccessible to some New Yorkers, Times Union. April 25, 2022.
• Does the US Have Enough Abortion Providers?, Medscape. April 23, 2022.
• ​Few PCPs Provide Abortion Services in US, but New Care Strategy May Increase Their Role, Healio. April 23, 2022. 

• Contraception Workforce Varies Widely Across US, Healio. September 3, 2021.