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Sophia Takemi Kawamoto1, Zahra T Raza1, Italia P Diaz1
1School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
Objectives:
To assess access to abortion pills offered by clinics providing state-funded family planning services in California.
Methods:
We attempted to make two scripted calls to a 20% random sample of family planning clinics in California, stratified by county, as "secret shoppers" in 2020 and 2021.
Results:
Clinic staff responded to 407 calls. Only 50 respondents (12%) reported their clinic offered abortion pills and 23 respondents (6%) accurately indicated to callers that abortion pills were available free to low-income individuals in California. Most (68%) clinics that did not offer abortion pills could not direct callers to a clinic that did offer abortion pills.
Conclusions:
Efforts are needed to increase the number of clinics providing medication abortion services in California. Clinic staff need training to provide accurate information about medication abortion.
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