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1 Cathren Cohen, et al., The Implications of Dobbs on Reproductive Health Care Access for LGBTQ People Who Can Get Pregnant 1 (2022)

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UCLA Center on Reproductive Health,
Law, and Policy
The Implications of Dobbs on
Reproductive Health Care Access
for LGBTQ People Who Can Get
Pregnant
OCTOBER 2022                                   Cathren Cohen, Bianca D.M. Wilson, Kerith J. Conron
QUICK FACTS
 LBQ cisgender women are statistically as likely to have had abortions in their lifetime as
straight cisgender women (22.8% vs 17.3%).1
 Nearly half of LBQ cisgender women who have been pregnant became pregnant in their teen
years.2
 For bisexually identified women ages 15-44, the odds of an unwanted pregnancy are 1.75
times greater than their heterosexual peers.3
 Sexually active, self-identified bisexual girls are 1.72 times more likely to become pregnant
than their sexually active straight high school-aged peers.4
 LBQ cisgender women, as well as transgender people whose sex assigned at birth is female,
are less likely than their straight cisgender peers to have had cancer screenings, such as Pap
smears or mammograms.5
'Bianca D.M. Wilson et al., Health and Socioeconomic Well-Being of LBQ Women in the US, WILLIAMS INST. 64 (Mar. 2021), https://
williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lbq-women-in-us/ (hereinafter LBQ Women Report).
2 d.
3 Bethany G. Everett, Katharine F. McCabe, & Tonda L. Hughes, Sexual Orientation Disparities in Mistimed and Unwanted Pregnancy
Among Adult Women, 49 PERSPECT SEX REPROD HEALTH 157 (Sept. 2017), https://www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819992/
(hereinafter Everett, McCabe, & Hughes).
4 Bethany G. Everett et al., Sexual Orientation Disparities in Pregnancy Risk Behaviors and Pregnancy Among Sexually Active Teenage
Girls: Updates from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 6 LGBT HEALTH 341 (Oct. 2019), https://pubmed.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/31618165/
(hereinafter Everett et al.).
s LBQ Women Report, supra note 1, at 58; Madina Agenor et al., Mapping the Scientific Literature on Reproductive Health Among
Transgender and Gender Diverse People: A Scoping Review, 29 SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATTERS 8, n. 18 (Feb. 2021), https://
www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011687/ (citing Sarah M. Peitzmeier et al., Pap Test Use is LowerAmong Female-to-Male

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