title: Access to abortion services: a neglected health disparity.
abstract: Minority and low SES women have persistently and disproportionately higher rates of abortion than White and higher SES women, yet have limited access to these services. The response of governmental health agencies to these disparities in abortion has focused solely on decreasing the number of abortions, without attention to access to needed health services. This commentary seeks to build an understanding of how access to abortion care is currently impeded for low-income women and women of color and calls for an end to that omission.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, SanFrancisco, CA, USA. cdehlendorf@fcm.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dehlendorf
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Weitz
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D044383:Black People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006077:Government Agencies; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011203:Poverty / Q000208:ethnology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012923:Social Class; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001741:Black or African American