Explained: Abortion Regulations and Policies Quiz

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1. Examples of state regulations passed to restrict the availability of medication abortion include the following:
- Requiring the use of an outdated FDA protocol for medication abortion
- Explicitly requiring the clinicians providing medication abortion are physicians
- Requiring that the prescribing clinician be in the physical presence of the patient
- All of the above
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2. Which of the following statements about the effects of requiring providers to use outdated regimens for medication abortion is FALSE?
- Providing medication abortion using the outdated regimen is more logistically burdensome
- The percentage of women needing an additional treatment, often in the form of an extra dose of misoprostol or an aspiration procedure, had increased.
- The proportion of medication abortion among all abortions remained consistent.
- The percentage of women reporting at least one side effect had doubled.
- None of the above
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3. True/False: Medication abortion has been proven to be safer than common medicines like Tylenol, Aspirin, and Viagra.
- True
- False
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4. Which is NOT an example of existing abortion regulations that target the “supply” side of abortion?
- Abortion facilities are required to have a transfer agreement with a local hospital.
- Women are required to wait for a period of one to six days after visiting the provider for the first time before having an abortion.
- Physicians providing abortions must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility.
- Abortion clinics must meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers.
- Provision of medication abortion care is limited only to physicians, despite recommendations from the World Health Organization that Advanced Practice Clinicians (e.g. physician’s assistant, nurses, midwives) can safely provide medication abortion.
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5. After the two TRAP laws went into effect, the total number of abortions performed in Texas had – ____________, and the proportion of abortions performed after 12 weeks gestation had ______________.
- increased; increased
- increased; stayed the same
- increased; decreased
- decreased; stayed the same
- decreased; increased
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6. Which of the following statements about parental involvement laws is FALSE?
- Parental involvement laws have little effect on the number of minors seeking an abortion.
- Parental notification laws did not change the proportion of minors who felt pressured by their parents into their pregnancy decision.
- Parental involvement requirements increase the number of minors who travel out-of-state to obtain an abortion where parental involvement is not required.
- Parental notification requirements increase the proportion of minors obtaining a second-trimester abortion.
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7. Although parental notification laws in Illinois ____________ the proportion of minors who involved a parent, they __________ a parent’s level of support for his or her child’s pregnancy decision.
- increased; increased
- did not change; did not change
- increased; did not change
- increased; decreased
- did not change; increased
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8. The following are reasons minors gave for not involving a parent in their abortion decision.
- Fear of physical or mental abuse
- Fear of worsening their relationship with their family
- A difficult family situation, such as drug dependency, loss of jobs, health problems, and marital strain
- All of the above
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9. True/False: Abortion clinics are held to a different standard than other out-patient medical procedures, even those with higher complication rates
- True
- False
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10. Many types of regulations and laws impact the way abortion is provided in the US by regulating which of the following?
- Counseling processes (including state mandated scripts that require providers to tell blatant lies)
- Certain techniques or procedures
- Clinic operations (including laws requiring the burial of fetal remains)
- All of the above
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