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Access to Contraceptives in Countries With Restrictive Abortion Laws: The Case of Brazil

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Pages 170-179 | Received 29 Sep 2014, Accepted 24 May 2015, Published online: 09 Jul 2015
 

Abstract

We aimed to determine whether current contraceptive use is affected by a history of abortion for women from a country with abortion-restricted laws. This is an analysis of 2006 Brazil Demographic and Health Survey. Nonpregnant women whose first pregnancy occurred in the previous 5 years were selected for this study (n = 2,181). We used propensity score matching to compare current contraceptive use among women with induced or spontaneous abortion and women with no abortion. We found differences in the use, but women with a history of abortion did not report more effective contraceptive than women with no abortion, as we expected.

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