Top headline: Des Moines Register, 1/20/2025
Bottom headline: Guttmacher Institute, August 2024
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Overall Findings
The RHIS findings demonstrate that restrictions on sexual and reproductive health care and rights undermine people’s reproductive autonomy through negative outcomes at the patient, provider and system levels. Additional and unexpected disruptions to the landscape during the study period, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade, exacerbated the harms of restrictive policies.
The main study findings include:
- All types of sexual and reproductive health care are inextricably linked, and restrictions on sexual and\ reproductive health care have broader implications.
- Programs and policies that support person-centered care and focus on sexual and reproductive health equity are key to ensuring reproductive autonomy for all patients.
- Cost is a significant barrier to patients’ ability to access care and achieve reproductive autonomy.
- Person-centered contraceptive care is essential because contraceptive preferences vary.
- Publicly funded family planning programs, including Title X, are critical to making contraceptive services affordable.
This headline sums up the current approach to reproductive health in Iowa.
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