Participants' Characteristics and Abortion Experience (n = 48)
| n (%) | |
|---|---|
| New career family physician | 41 (85.4) |
| Thought leader | 7 (14.6) |
| Gender* | |
| Female | 39 (81.3) |
| Male | 9 (18.8) |
| Race† | |
| Asian | 8 (16.7) |
| Black or African American | 4 (8.3) |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 (2.1) |
| White | 31 (64.6) |
| Other | 4 (8.3) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Hispanic or Latino/a/x | 2 (4.2) |
| Non-Hispanic or Non-Latino/a/x | 46 (95.8) |
| Age (years) | |
| ≤30 | 1 (2.1) |
| 31 to 40 | 38 (79.2) |
| 41 to 50 | 4 (8.3) |
| 51 to 60 | 4 (8.3) |
| >60 | 1 (2.1) |
| Regions of the US‡ | |
| West | 21 (43.8) |
| South | 10 (20.8) |
| Midwest | 5 (10.4) |
| Northeast | 12 (25.0) |
| State Abortion Policy Landscape§ | |
| Hostile | 16 (33.3) |
| Neutral | 3 (6.3) |
| Supportive | 27 (56.3) |
| N/A | 2 (4.2) |
| Approximate distance between physician's clinical setting and nearest abortion clinic‖ (miles) | |
| <5 | 30 (62.5) |
| 5 to 25 | 9 (18.8) |
| 26 to 50 | 4 (8.3) |
| >50 | 4 (8.3) |
| Unknown | 1 (2.1) |
| Abortion Training | |
| Aspiration and medication abortion | 34 (70.8) |
| Only aspiration abortion | 2 (4.2) |
| Only medication abortion | 1 (2.1) |
| Neither aspiration or medication abortion | 11 (22.9) |
| Abortion services provided since graduating residency | |
| Aspiration and medication abortion | 16 (33.3) |
| Only aspiration abortion | 0 |
| Only medication abortion | 5 (10.4) |
| Neither aspiration nor medication abortion | 27 (56.3) |
| Current medication abortion provision | |
| Currently provides medication abortion | 17 (35.4) |
| Does not currently provide medication abortion | 31 (64.6) |
| Setting of current abortion provision | |
| Primary care | 5 (10.4) |
| Reproductive health clinic | 10 (20.8) |
| Primary care and reproductive health clinic | 2 (4.2) |
| N/A (Does not provide abortion care) | 31 (64.6) |
↵* In the pre-interview survey physicians were asked the following question: “Which of the following best describes your gender?” The options include: (female, male, transgender male, transgender female, nonbinary, gender fluid, something not listed here.).
↵† Participants were able to select more than one category.
↵‡ U.S. Census Bureau, Census Regions and Divisions of the United States, 2013.
↵§ Nash E, State Abortion Policy Landscape: From Hostile to Supportive, Guttmacher Institute, 2019. State categories were based on laws in effect as of July 1, 2020. N/A refers to areas where a state policy landscape was not available.
↵‖ ANSIRH, Abortion Facility Database, University of California, San Francisco, 2019. Distance was calculated using the zip code of the clinic where the physician works and the address of the closest clinic that offers abortion care in the ANSIRH Facility Database. If a physician works at multiple sites, the zip code of the furthest clinic from an abortion clinic was used.