Changes are needed to Medicaid at the federal and state levels to increase women’s access to long-acting reversible contraceptives after childbirth and abortion care. Source: iStockphoto

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2016.   Long-acting reversible contraceptives, or LARCs, are highly effective family-planning methods. However, due to a variety of policy barriers, many women who receive their health insurance through Medicaid are not able to access LARCs directly after childbirth or receiving abortion care. Today, the Center…