Understanding People’s Experiences with and Preferences for Post-Abortion Contraceptive Care

Overview

The Society of Family Planning

Our Mission

The Society of Family Planning is the source for abortion and contraception science.

Our Vision

We believe in just and equitable abortion and contraception informed by science.

Understanding People’s Experiences with and Preferences for Post-Abortion Contraceptive Care

Purpose

The ability to receive contraceptive care when, how, and where people want it is a critical component of contraceptive access. For some people, this includes being able to obtain contraceptive care at the time of their abortion. Unfortunately, many healthcare organizations that provide abortion face challenges providing contraceptive care due, in part, to lack of clear policies around billing, which stem from federal and state restrictions on abortion and insurance coverage of abortion.

Against the backdrop of these structural constraints, research on people’s experiences with and preferences related to contraceptive care at the time of their abortion can serve as an important catalyst for advocacy and policy change. As such, the Society of Family Planning is offering the Understanding people’s experiences with and preferences for post-abortion contraceptive care funding opportunity. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to generate evidence that can be used to shift advocacy and policy in support of contraceptive access at healthcare organizations that provide abortion.

Research Focus

We invite research proposals that explore people’s experiences with and preferences related to contraceptive care at the time of their abortion. Proposals should be focused on exploring this topic in the post-Dobbs period. Proposed research can focus on any contraceptive method(s) or component of contraceptive care (eg, contraceptive counseling, insertion procedures, contraceptive products) at the time of abortion, so long as those choices are clearly named and justified in the proposal.

In addition, teams should define and justify the population the research is focused on. Teams should bring attention to how that population's experience with contraceptive care is shaped by social location (eg, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, gender, age, health, and geography), federal and state policies on abortion, and insurance coverage of abortion care.

Proposed research must be positioned to produce empirical evidence with a clear, concrete, and strategic path to influencing advocacy and/or policy efforts focused on expanding access to contraceptive care at healthcare organizations that provide abortion. Please note that projects exploring post-abortion contraceptive care at the clinician or healthcare organization level or projects developing or evaluating interventions are not aligned with the purpose of this funding opportunity.

Teams must be attentive to the Society’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Vision Statement and should seek to uphold equity-informed principles for contraceptive access research throughout the research process. If proposed research uses quantitative data related to race and racism, please be attentive to recommendations00223-3/fulltext) for working with these data.

Funds and Duration

We invite proposals for research studies with budgets up to $75,000 that can be completed within 12 months of award. We anticipate supporting up to three research projects via this funding opportunity. Funding is also available to cover processing fees associated with two open-access publications, provided the work is published within two years of grant completion.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Grants are limited, without exception, to tax-exempt organizations.
* Grants will be made to organizations on behalf of a named principal investigator (PI).
* Proof of the agency/institution’s tax-exempt status determination letter must be included.

* Applicants do not need to be members of the Society.
* Funding is limited to projects focused on people’s experiences with and preferences related to contraceptive care at the time of their abortion in the US.