Access to Contraceptives in Countries With Restrictive Abortion Laws: The Case of Brazil
Borges, A.Luiza.Vilela.; Tsui, A.Ong.; Fujimori, E.; Hoga, L.Akiko.Komura.
Health Care for Women International 37(2): 170-179
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0739-9332 PMID: 26042959 DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2015.1055746Document Number: 636355
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.