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Dozier JL, Burke AE, McMahon HV, Berger BO, Quasebarth M, Sufrin C, Bell SO. "Maybe if we weren't in the pandemic, I would have reconsidered": Experiences of abortion care-seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland. PERSPECTIVES ON SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH 2024; 56:124-135. [PMID: 38655782 DOI: 10.1111/psrh.12265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To understand the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on abortion care-seeking in Maryland, a state with Medicaid coverage for abortion, high service availability, and laws supporting abortion rights. METHODS We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with 15 women who had an abortion between January 2021 and March 2022 at a hospital-based clinic in a mid-sized Maryland city. We purposively recruited participants with varied pandemic financial impacts. Interview questions prompted participants to reflect on how the pandemic affected their lives, pregnancy decisions, and experiences seeking abortion care. We analyzed our data for themes. RESULTS All participants had some insurance coverage for their abortion; over half paid using Medicaid. Many participants experienced pandemic financial hardship, with several reporting job, food, and housing insecurity as circumstances influencing their decision to have an abortion. Most women who self-reported minimal financial hardship caused by the pandemic indicated they sought an abortion for reasons unrelated to COVID-19. In contrast, women with economic hardship viewed their pregnancies as unsupportable due to COVID-19 exacerbating financial instability, even when they desired to continue the pregnancy. All participants expressed that having an abortion was the best decision for their lives. Yet, when making decisions about their pregnancy, the most financially disadvantaged women weighed their desires against the pandemic's constraints on their reproductive self-determination. CONCLUSIONS The pandemic changed abortion care-seeking circumstances even in a setting with minimal access barriers. Financial hardship influenced some women to have an abortion for a pregnancy that-while unplanned-they may have preferred to continue.
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- Jessica L Dozier
- Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Conner LR, Ruppel M, Oser CB. A scoping review: Forced/coerced sterilization as a socio-cultural risk factor for sexually transmitted HIV for older Black women. J Health Psychol 2024:13591053241240922. [PMID: 38654481 DOI: 10.1177/13591053241240922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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Understanding socio-cultural factors that influence older (age 50 and up) Black women's risk for sexually transmitted HIV has often been absent from policies and programs. This scoping review asked: What does academic literature reveal about forced/coerced sterilization as a risk factor for older Black women who are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted HIV? Using the Arksey and O'Malley scoping review methodology, the authors identified academic and gray literature published between 2000 and 2023. Of the 407 sources identified and screened, three articles met the criteria for inclusion. One study focused on birth control conspiracy beliefs, another focused on racial differences in Norplant use, and the third focused on the intergenerational transmission of mistrust of medical care that influences HIV prevention among Black Americans. The study findings suggest that because the link has not been made between socio-cultural factors that impact older Black women's reproductive health practices, further investigation is warranted.
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Bornstein M, Church AC, Masterson K, Norris AH. Perceptions and Experiences With Healthcare Providers Among People Navigating Reproductive and Fertility Decisions. J Prim Care Community Health 2024; 15:21501319241249405. [PMID: 38682555 PMCID: PMC11060028 DOI: 10.1177/21501319241249405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Revised: 04/01/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES Primary healthcare providers have an important role in helping people manage their reproductive health and fertility by assessing pregnancy intentions to inform the provision of contraception and/or preconception care. This study explores how women navigating fertility decisions perceived and experienced interactions with their healthcare providers around their fertility. METHODS We conducted in-depth interviews (N = 17) and focus groups (N = 17 groups) with 65 women aged 18 to 35 years about fertility, infertility, and reproductive planning. Two researchers coded 2 transcripts using thematic and inductive methods and met to develop a structured codebook. We then applied the codebook to the remaining transcripts. RESULTS In all interviews and focus groups, participants discussed their interactions with healthcare providers around fertility. Three central themes emerged in the data, including a desire for more information from healthcare providers about fertility; experiences of having fertility concerns dismissed by healthcare providers (eg, ability to become pregnant when desired); and, feelings that healthcare providers lacked sensitivity in discussing fertility related issues. Notably, these themes were present, even among participants who were not trying to become pregnant or who did not wish to become pregnant. CONCLUSION Participants wanted information about fertility from their primary healthcare providers that they felt was lacking. Moreover, participants wanted their healthcare providers to engage with them as multifaceted individuals with current needs as well as future plans regarding fertility. While healthcare providers regularly assess pregnancy intentions, they may need to make a concerted effort to address fertility concerns among both those who want to pursue pregnancy and those who do not wish to become pregnant immediately.
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Roth C. Abortion access in the Americas: a hemispheric and historical approach. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1284737. [PMID: 38125840 PMCID: PMC10730672 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1284737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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This perspective article situates the 2022 United States (U.S.) Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade (1973) within the broader history of abortion rights activism and legislation in the greater Americas. The U.S. public has stereotyped Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as socially conservative regarding gender issues and anti-reproductive rights. But twenty-first-century LAC presents a more complicated landscape than this dominant narrative suggests. In the past 15 years, political, legislative, and public health advances and setbacks across the region provide both a blueprint for re-establishing access to safe and legal abortion and a warning on the consequences of the criminalization of abortion for the U.S. Employing a narrative approach that summarizes recent interdisciplinary literature, this perspective traces the history of the expansion of abortion access in the Americas. Mexico (2007, 2023), Uruguay (2012), Argentina (2020), and Colombia (2022) legalized abortion on demand within specific timeframes. These expansions coexist with severe restrictions on abortion in various nations including Haiti (1835), the Dominican Republic (1884, 2009), Honduras (1985, 2021), El Salvador (1997), and Nicaragua (2006), as well as some states in the United States (2022). This perspective finds that legalization occurs when feminist activists eschew U.S.-based feminist rhetoric of individual rights and choice to reframe abortion as a form of gender-based violence within a discourse of health and wellbeing as a human right. According to this perspective, restrictions on access to the procedure constitute a form of violence against women and people capable of bearing children and violate human rights.
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- Cassia Roth
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
- Department of History, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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Huslage M, Ely GE, Nugent WR, Auerbach S, Agbemenu K. Reproductive Autonomy in Appalachia: An Investigation into Perceived Contraceptive Pressure. JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE 2023; 38:6985-7011. [PMID: 36583293 DOI: 10.1177/08862605221140035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The reproductive autonomy of persons who can give birth can be impeded through forms of interpersonal violence and coercion. Moreover, macro-level factors (e.g., poverty, discrimination, community violence, legislative policies) may impede the reproductive autonomy of entire communities. This study investigates a form of violence we term perceived contraceptive pressure in Appalachia, an understudied region of the Eastern U.S., regarding reproductive health and decision-making. Through targeted Meta advertising, participants (N = 632) residing in Appalachian zip codes completed an online survey on reproductive health. The focus of this study was to investigate the prevalence of perceived contraceptive pressure, who was at increased risk of experiencing pressure, and the source(s) of perceived pressure. Binomial regressions were conducted on three different dependent variables: perceived pressure to be sterilized, perceived pressure to use birth control, and perceived pressure not to use birth control. Approximately half of all respondents (49.5%) reported experiencing at least one type of pressure targeting contraceptive decision-making. The most prevalent source of perceived pressure to use birth control was from the healthcare provider (67.4%), and the most prevalent source of perceived pressure not to use birth control was the respondent's partner (51.1%). Recommendations for providers serving clients in the Appalachian region include pursuing education regarding contraceptive pressure at the individual level and macro-level. In addition, Appalachian residents may benefit from educational programming on reproductive autonomy, healthy relationships, and how to navigate pressure in relationships.
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- Melody Huslage
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Social Work, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Social Work, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Social Work, Knoxville, TN, USA
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Handler A, McMackin M. Federal Direction + Local Implementation as a Strategy for Improving Infant Health: The Founding and Evolution of the Infant Welfare Society of Evanston. Matern Child Health J 2023:10.1007/s10995-023-03658-9. [PMID: 37017805 DOI: 10.1007/s10995-023-03658-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/06/2023]
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While the role of the US federal government in improving Maternal and Child Health (MCH) is often seen as a history of opportunities and tensions between the federal bureaucracy and state implementation, less is known about how federal governmental policies to improve MCH have been implemented at the local level, and the nature of the dynamic between local implementation and federal adoption of locally generated strategies. By describing the emergence of the Infant Welfare Society of Evanston in the first part of the 20th century and describing its evolution until 1971, we showcase the forces that shaped the emergence of an MCH institution at the local level in the early part of the history of MCH in the US. This article highlights the interaction of a progressive maternalistic frame and the growth of local public health infrastructure as fundamental to the basis of action to address infant health during this period. However, this history also highlights the complex relationship of institutions dominated by White women and their relationship to the populations served in the development of the field of MCH and elucidates the need for more explicit attention to understanding the role of Black social institutions in the development of the field of MCH.
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- Arden Handler
- Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 W. Taylor, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA.
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- Department of History, Gender and Women's Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Soto-Ponce B, Garcia-Ramirez M, Jiménez L. Romani Girls Matter: Developing a Participatory Action Research Protocol for Reproductive Justice. Healthcare (Basel) 2023; 11:healthcare11050755. [PMID: 36900760 PMCID: PMC10001154 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11050755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
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Despite the last few decades' advances towards social and gender justice, reproductive decisions are still a source of oppression for many European Romani women and girls. This protocol aims to propose a model to empower Romani women and girls' reproductive decisions, inspired by Reproductive Justice-the recognition of women and girls' ability to make safe and free decisions about their bodies and reproduction. Through Participatory Action Research, 15-20 Romani girls and their families, two Romani platforms, and key agents from a rural and an urban context in Spain will participate. They will (1) contextualize Romani women and girls' inequities, (2) build partnerships, (3) implement Photovoice and advocate for their gender rights, and (4) assess the initiative's related changes, using self-evaluation techniques. Qualitative and quantitative indicators will be collected to assess impacts among participants, while tailoring and assuring the quality of the actions. Expected outcomes include the creation and consolidation of new social networks, and the promotion of Romani women and girls' leadership. For this, Romani organizations must be transformed into empowering settings for their communities, spaces where Romani women and girls assume responsibility of the initiatives, being these tailored to their real needs and interests, and guaranteeing transformative social changes.
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- Belen Soto-Ponce
- CESPYD, Department of Social Psychology, University of Seville, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
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- CESPYD, Department of Social Psychology, University of Seville, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Seville, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
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Policy impacts on contraceptive access in the United States: a scoping review. JOURNAL OF POPULATION RESEARCH 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s12546-023-09298-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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AbstractContraceptive access is influenced by policy decisions, which can expand and constrict the contraceptive options available. This study explored the impact of recent US federal policies on contraceptive access by identifying and reviewing empirical literature, which is then presented and discussed using Levesque et al.’s (2013) healthcare access framework. A scoping review was conducted to identify empirical studies (N = 96) examining the impact of recent federal policy (passed from 2009 to 2019) on contraceptive access. Most identified studies examined the role of the Affordable Care Act (n = 53) and Title X of the Public Health Service Act (n = 25), showing many benefits of both policies for contraceptive access, particularly through improved affordability, availability, and appropriateness of contraceptive care. Other identified studies examined the impact of policies funding abstinence-only sex education (n = 2) and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (n = 3), military policies related to the availability of contraception (n = 1), guidelines for quality contraceptive care (n = 3), Title IX of the Education Amendments (n = 4), the Violence Against Women Act (n = 1), and the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act (n = 4). Through increased outreach efforts, normalising of care, availability of services, cost subsidies, and provider competencies, recent federal policy has, overall, enhanced contraceptive access across the dimensions of healthcare access. Numerous policy and practice gaps and needs are identified, and future directions for research, policy, and practice are suggested.
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Swan LET. Policy impacts on contraceptive access in the United States: a scoping review. JOURNAL OF POPULATION RESEARCH 2023; 40:5. [DOI: https:/doi.org/10.1007/s12546-023-09298-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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AbstractContraceptive access is influenced by policy decisions, which can expand and constrict the contraceptive options available. This study explored the impact of recent US federal policies on contraceptive access by identifying and reviewing empirical literature, which is then presented and discussed using Levesque et al.’s (2013) healthcare access framework. A scoping review was conducted to identify empirical studies (N = 96) examining the impact of recent federal policy (passed from 2009 to 2019) on contraceptive access. Most identified studies examined the role of the Affordable Care Act (n = 53) and Title X of the Public Health Service Act (n = 25), showing many benefits of both policies for contraceptive access, particularly through improved affordability, availability, and appropriateness of contraceptive care. Other identified studies examined the impact of policies funding abstinence-only sex education (n = 2) and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (n = 3), military policies related to the availability of contraception (n = 1), guidelines for quality contraceptive care (n = 3), Title IX of the Education Amendments (n = 4), the Violence Against Women Act (n = 1), and the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act (n = 4). Through increased outreach efforts, normalising of care, availability of services, cost subsidies, and provider competencies, recent federal policy has, overall, enhanced contraceptive access across the dimensions of healthcare access. Numerous policy and practice gaps and needs are identified, and future directions for research, policy, and practice are suggested.
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Dickey MS, Mosley EA, Clark EA, Cordes S, Lathrop E, Haddad LB. "They're forcing people to have children that they can't afford": a qualitative study of social support and capital among individuals receiving an abortion in Georgia. Soc Sci Med 2022; 315:115547. [PMID: 36427479 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Revised: 11/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Abortion is common but highly stigmatized in the United States, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade severely restricted abortion access in many states across the nation. Data reveal that maternal morbidity and mortality are already increasing, and research suggests existing inequities in abortion access across racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups will be exacerbated. Research has shown that social support (perceived and received aid from one's social network) and social capital (resources accessed through those social connections) can improve access to health services and decrease barriers to care. Given the escalating barriers to abortion, including longer travel distances, it is imperative to better understand the roles of social support and social capital within abortion access, especially for people living on lower incomes and people of color. Our team conducted in-depth interviews with post-abortion patients (n = 18) from an urban abortion clinic in Georgia in 2019 and 2020, shortly after a six-week gestational age abortion limit had been passed but before it was enacted. We examined how people described their social support and social capital - or lack thereof - when making decisions about their pregnancy and their ability to access abortion. We found that social support and social capital - economic support in particular - were key facilitators of both abortion access and parenting, but participants often experienced barriers to economic support within their social networks due to poverty, unstable partnerships, structural inequality, and abortion stigma. Women experienced constraints to their reproductive autonomy, wherein they had no alternatives but abortion. Our findings suggest that increased economic support and de-stigmatization of abortion are needed to improve reproductive autonomy. Our findings also indicate that restricting and outlawing abortion services is significantly detrimental to the well-being of pregnant people, their families and networks, and their communities by perpetuating cycles of poverty and deepening socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities.
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- Madison S Dickey
- Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
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- The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 250 East Ponce De Leon Avenue, Decatur, GA, 30030, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA; The Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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Buchbinder M, Mishtal J, Singer EO, Wendland CL. Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision. Med Anthropol Q 2022; 36:433-441. [PMID: 36433774 PMCID: PMC10098746 DOI: 10.1111/maq.12741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This statement summarizes key findings from anthropological and related scholarship on the harmful consequences of inadequate abortion access, leading the Society for Medical Anthropology to register profound concern about the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson. After circulation to SMA members for input, a finalized version passed a membership vote by an overwhelming margin. This statement complements one produced by the Council for Anthropology and Reproduction, available here.
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- Mara Buchbinder
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Social Medicine
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- University of Central Florida, Department of Anthropology
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Departments of Anthropology and Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Mavuso JMJJ, Chadwick R. Reproductive governance and the affective economy. FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/09593535221106644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The governance of reproductive practices, processes, decision-making, experiences, desires, subjectivities, and bodies has received and continues to receive significant attention in feminist efforts to name and resist reproductive oppression. And over the last 30 years, articles published in Feminism & Psychology have made significant contributions to the visibilisation and critique of this form of oppression. In this Virtual Special Issue on Reproductive Governance and the Affective Economy, we apply repronormativity and affect to our reading of 20 articles published in Feminism & Psychology. Collectively, these articles provide a glimpse of the wide-ranging scope of reproductive regulation (including that which is re-produced by/within feminism itself), and the various work that repronormativity and affect do in this governance. The challenging of reproductive governance notwithstanding, we conclude by arguing that the centring and circulation of certain reproductive subjects and their experiences within feminist knowledge production is itself a part of and upholds repronormativity and forecloses the possibility of reproductive freedom for all.
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Corpuz JS, Simmonds K. Empowering the Nurse Practitioner With the Reproductive Justice Framework. J Nurse Pract 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2022.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Romero D, Manze M, Roberts L, McGroarty A, Jones HE. Stakeholder perspectives in New York State on reproductive health and pregnancy intention screening in primary care: A qualitative study. Contraception 2022; 112:93-99. [DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2022.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Swan LET. The impact of US policy on contraceptive access: a policy analysis. Reprod Health 2021; 18:235. [DOI: https:/doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01289-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/22/2023] Open
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Background
Contraceptive access is influenced by policy decisions, which can expand and constrict the contraceptive options available. This study explored the impact of recent US federal policy on contraceptive access.
Methods
Federal policy changes impacting contraceptive access over the past decade were identified in grey literature. These policy changes were organized into a timeline and analyzed according to Levesque et al.'s (2013) five dimensions of healthcare access (approachability, acceptability, availability/accommodation, affordability, and appropriateness), noting the most salient healthcare dimension impacted by the policy change and analyzing whether, according to this framework, the policy created a theoretical increase or decrease in contraceptive access.
Results
Of those policy changes coded as increasing (n = 42) and decreasing (n = 28) contraceptive access, most were related to the affordability (increasing n = 13; decreasing n = 12), physical availability (increasing n = 10; decreasing n = 7), and appropriateness (increasing n = 12; decreasing n = 4) of contraceptive care. Policy changes largely followed partisan divides, with contraceptive access increasing in years with a Democratic president and decreasing when a Republican president was in office. Many policy changes were related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Title X of the Public Health Services Act. The implementation of the ACA and subsequent updates to it have increased the affordability of contraception, whereas changes to Title X have decreased the availability and appropriateness of contraceptive care.
Conclusions
This study highlights recent policy changes impacting contraceptive access, organizing them according to the five dimensions of healthcare access. It outlines specific policy barriers to contraceptive access and provides suggestions for policy and practice action that will improve contraceptive access and reproductive autonomy. Opportunities to ensure contraceptive access for all Americans include promoting comprehensive sex education, extending the Community Health Center Fund, increasing contraceptive care options for people with employers who are exempted from the ACA contraceptive mandate, addressing discrimination and building trust in contraceptive care, and amplifying outreach efforts to combat misinformation and confusion created by continuous changes to key family planning policies. Continued research on the role of policy in determining reproductive autonomy is warranted, and practice and policy action is needed to improve contraceptive access.
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Brandão ER, Cabral CDS. Vidas precárias: tecnologias de governo e modos de gestão da fecundidade de mulheres “vulneráveis”. HORIZONTES ANTROPOLÓGICOS 2021. [DOI: 10.1590/s0104-71832021000300002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Resumo Lacunas no planejamento reprodutivo, após 25 anos da Lei de Planejamento Familiar, no Brasil, têm promovido uma ressignificação do controle reprodutivo. As expressivas dificuldades para realização da laqueadura tubária no Sistema Único de Saúde têm permitido o florescimento de estratégias governamentais fomentando acesso estratificado e racializado a métodos contraceptivos reversíveis de longa duração (LARC). A pesquisa etnográfica apoiou-se em fontes documentais sobre iniciativas institucionais para inclusão de LARC no sistema público de saúde, tomando-se o município de São Paulo como caso empírico paradigmático. Envoltas no ideário da cidadania, argumenta-se que tais tecnologias de governo são acionadas na direção contrária à ampliação de direitos sexuais e reprodutivos, para reificar estereótipos sociais que subtraem a autonomia reprodutiva das mulheres. Tomando o conceito de “coerção contraceptiva” como categoria de análise, demonstra-se como tais expedientes ferem o paradigma da justiça reprodutiva no Brasil ao se institucionalizar a exclusão social pelo útero das mulheres “vulneráveis”.
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Swan LET. The impact of US policy on contraceptive access: a policy analysis. Reprod Health 2021; 18:235. [PMID: 34809673 PMCID: PMC8607408 DOI: 10.1186/s12978-021-01289-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Contraceptive access is influenced by policy decisions, which can expand and constrict the contraceptive options available. This study explored the impact of recent US federal policy on contraceptive access. METHODS Federal policy changes impacting contraceptive access over the past decade were identified in grey literature. These policy changes were organized into a timeline and analyzed according to Levesque et al.'s (2013) five dimensions of healthcare access (approachability, acceptability, availability/accommodation, affordability, and appropriateness), noting the most salient healthcare dimension impacted by the policy change and analyzing whether, according to this framework, the policy created a theoretical increase or decrease in contraceptive access. RESULTS Of those policy changes coded as increasing (n = 42) and decreasing (n = 28) contraceptive access, most were related to the affordability (increasing n = 13; decreasing n = 12), physical availability (increasing n = 10; decreasing n = 7), and appropriateness (increasing n = 12; decreasing n = 4) of contraceptive care. Policy changes largely followed partisan divides, with contraceptive access increasing in years with a Democratic president and decreasing when a Republican president was in office. Many policy changes were related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Title X of the Public Health Services Act. The implementation of the ACA and subsequent updates to it have increased the affordability of contraception, whereas changes to Title X have decreased the availability and appropriateness of contraceptive care. CONCLUSIONS This study highlights recent policy changes impacting contraceptive access, organizing them according to the five dimensions of healthcare access. It outlines specific policy barriers to contraceptive access and provides suggestions for policy and practice action that will improve contraceptive access and reproductive autonomy. Opportunities to ensure contraceptive access for all Americans include promoting comprehensive sex education, extending the Community Health Center Fund, increasing contraceptive care options for people with employers who are exempted from the ACA contraceptive mandate, addressing discrimination and building trust in contraceptive care, and amplifying outreach efforts to combat misinformation and confusion created by continuous changes to key family planning policies. Continued research on the role of policy in determining reproductive autonomy is warranted, and practice and policy action is needed to improve contraceptive access.
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- Laura E T Swan
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
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Saunders K. Researching relationality: Reflections on the use of concept cards during in-depth interviews. METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/20597991211035525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This article reflects on the use of concept cards during in-depth interviews when researching reproductive decision-making in the context of neoliberalism and postfeminism. As existing literature has shown, card methods are valuable in centring participants’ individual experiences through increased control and inclusion during data collection, and attention has been drawn to their use as an ethically attentive method that can elicit richer, more complex narratives than interviews alone. While these strengths initially led me to consider the cards as an appropriate ‘fit’ with my feminist methodological approach, on reflection, the cards also illuminated the relationality of experiences that my research was concerned with. I view this as occurring in two ways. First, participants’ use of the cards helped to uncover the intertwining of their reproductive decisions with the social and political world, therefore complicating the neoliberal prioritization of the individual. Second, the cards brought the relation between myself and the participants, and between the participants, to the forefront. The reflections in this article therefore offer new insights into what concept cards can achieve, as not only validating individual accounts, but as enhancing the relationality of knowledge production.
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Idriss-Wheeler D, El-Mowafi IM, Coen-Sanchez K, Yalahow A, Yaya S. Looking through the lens of reproductive justice: the need for a paradigm shift in sexual and reproductive health and rights research in Canada. Reprod Health 2021; 18:129. [PMID: 34162395 PMCID: PMC8220359 DOI: 10.1186/s12978-021-01169-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Dina Idriss-Wheeler
- Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. .,The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. .,School of International Development and Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, 120 University Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada.
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Morison T. Reproductive justice: A radical framework for researching sexual and reproductive issues in psychology. SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY COMPASS 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Tracy Morison
- School of Psychology Massey University Palmerston North Manawatu New Zealand
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Burger K, Evans-Agnew R, Johnson S. Reproductive justice and black lives: A concept analysis for public health nursing. Public Health Nurs 2021; 39:238-250. [PMID: 33970521 DOI: 10.1111/phn.12919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Inequities in maternal mortality in the United States are a form of structural violence against Black women. The concept of reproductive justice has been employed in the social sciences for almost 30 years, yet nursing has been slow to adopt this concept in promoting maternal-child health. OBJECTIVE To analyze the concept of reproductive justice as used in peer-reviewed publications with the aim of reframing black maternal health in public health nursing scholarship, research, practice, and advocacy. DESIGN We conducted a systematic review of the social science literature. We analyzed selected articles though a principle-based concept analysis focusing on epistemological, pragmatic, linguistic, and logical principles. SAMPLE Eight articles were selected from a pool of 377. RESULTS Race was identified as a source of power for understanding reproductive justice through individual knowledge, collective knowledge, and praxis. Pragmatically, reproductive justice is a social justice-oriented platform that bridges the pro-choice/pro-life divide; aids coalition building; and promotes inclusion. Linguistically, the concept is distinct from both reproductive health and reproductive rights. Reproductive justice is logically situated within intersectionality theory and the cumulative embodiment of oppressions Black women experience based on race, class, and gender. CONCLUSION Reproductive justice reframes public health nursing actions for Black women by focusing on uncovering systems of oppression, recognizing past historical injustices, and advancing cultural safety in health promotion. Multilevel interventions are needed to simultaneously address these injustices particularly in the areas of preconception health, maternal health, infant and child health, and Black family well-being across the reproductive lifespan.
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- Kathryn Burger
- University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA
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Over the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to intervening in individuals' health in the "preconception" period as an approach to optimizing pregnancy outcomes. Increasing attention to the structural and social determinants of health and to the need to prioritize reproductive autonomy has underscored the need to evolve the preconception health framework to center race equity and to engage with the historical and social context in which reproduction and reproductive health care occur. In this commentary, we describe the results of a meeting with a multidisciplinary group of maternal and child health experts, reproductive health researchers and practitioners, and Reproductive Justice leaders to define a new approach for clinical and public health systems to engage with the health of nonpregnant people. We describe a novel "Reproductive and Sexual Health Equity" framework, defined as an approach to comprehensively meet people's reproductive and sexual health needs, with explicit attention to structural influences on health and health care and grounded in a desire to achieve the highest level of health for all people and address inequities in health outcomes. Principles of the framework include centering the needs of and redistributing power to communities, having clinical and public health systems acknowledge historical and ongoing harms related to reproductive and sexual health, and addressing root causes of inequities. We conclude with a call to action for a multisectoral effort centered in equity to advance reproductive and sexual health across the reproductive life course.
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Brandão ER, Cabral CDS. Youth, gender and reproductive justice: health inequities in family planning in Brazil's Unified Health System. CIENCIA & SAUDE COLETIVA 2021; 26:2673-2682. [PMID: 34231680 DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232021267.08322021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Sexual initiation is a gradual process of experimentation and learning the cultural repertoire of gender, reproduction, contraception, sexual violence and other topics surrounding youth sociability. Unlike sexual abstinence-based approaches promoted as a panacea for reducing "early pregnancy" in Brazil, reproductive justice is posited as a framework for addressing health inequities in family planning. This article discusses the challenges faced by public health policies in supporting adolescents and young people in their sexual and reproductive trajectories, drawing on the concept of intersectionality. We focus on public institutional initiatives providing long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) on the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) implemented over the last decade. We conducted a documentary anthropological study drawing on empirical data on contraceptive technologies in order to problematize what we call the "selective provision" of these devices and discriminatory and stigmatizing practices. Advocating the expansion of the provision of contraception on the SUS, with universal access to LARC for all women, distances itself from what we call "contraceptive coercion" among specific social groups.
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- Elaine Reis Brandão
- Instituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Praça Jorge Machado Moreira 100, Cidade Universitária. 21941-598 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
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Liddell JL, Kington SG. "Something Was Attacking Them and Their Reproductive Organs": Environmental Reproductive Justice in an Indigenous Tribe in the United States Gulf Coast. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:E666. [PMID: 33466865 PMCID: PMC7830890 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18020666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Environmental reproductive justice is increasingly being utilized as a framework for exploring how environmental exploitation and pollution contribute to reproductive health and reproductive injustices. However, little research explores how settler colonialism and historical oppression contribute to the physical transformation of land, and how this undermines tribal members' health. Even less research explores the intersection of environmental justice and reproductive justice among Indigenous groups, especially in the Gulf South, who are especially vulnerable to environmental justice issues due to climate change, land loss, and oil company exploitation, and for tribes that are non-federally recognized. A qualitative description research methodology was used to conduct 31 life-history interviews with women from a Gulf Coast Indigenous tribe. Findings of this study reveal that central components of reproductive justice, including the ability to have children and the ability to raise children in safe and healthy environments, are undermined by environmental justice issues in the community. Among concerns raised by women were high rates of chronic healthcare issues among community members, and issues with infertility. Recognizing Indigenous sovereignty is central to addressing these environmental reproductive justice issues. This research is unique in exploring the topic of environmental reproductive justice among a state-recognized Gulf Coast tribe.
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- Department of Sociology, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA;
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Barnes JA. Behind the Scenes of Hollywood: An Archaeology of Reproductive Oppression at the Intersections. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/aman.13511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jodi A. Barnes
- University of Arkansas, Arkansas Archeological Survey Monticello AR 71656 USA
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Mehra R, Boyd LM, Magriples U, Kershaw TS, Ickovics JR, Keene DE. Black Pregnant Women "Get the Most Judgment": A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Black Women at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Pregnancy. Womens Health Issues 2020; 30:484-492. [PMID: 32900575 PMCID: PMC7704604 DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2020.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Revised: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pronounced racial disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes persist in the United States. Using an ecosocial and intersectionality framework and biopsychosocial model of health, we aimed to understand Black pregnant women's experiences of gendered racism during pregnancy. METHODS We conducted semistructured interviews with 24 Black pregnant women in New Haven, Connecticut. We asked women about their experience of being pregnant, experiences of gendered racism, and concerns related to pregnancy and parenting Black children. Transcripts were coded by three trained analysts using grounded theory techniques. RESULTS Women experienced gendered racism during pregnancy-racialized pregnancy stigma-in the form of stereotypes stigmatizing Black motherhood that devalued Black pregnancies. Women reported encountering assumptions that they had low incomes, were single, and had multiple children, regardless of socioeconomic status, marital status, or parity. Women encountered racialized pregnancy stigma in everyday, health care, social services, and housing-related contexts, making it difficult to complete tasks without scrutiny. For many, racialized pregnancy stigma was a source of stress. To counteract these stereotypes, women used a variety of coping responses, including positive self-definition. CONCLUSIONS Racialized pregnancy stigma may contribute to poorer maternal and infant outcomes by way of reduced access to quality health care; impediments to services, resources, and social support; and poorer psychological health. Interventions to address racialized pregnancy stigma and its adverse consequences include anti-bias training for health care and social service providers; screening for racialized pregnancy stigma and providing evidence-based coping strategies; creating pregnancy support groups; and developing a broader societal discourse that values Black women and their pregnancies.
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- Renee Mehra
- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
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- Department of Urology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut; Yale-NUS College, Singapore
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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“Not an instruction manual”: Environmental degradation, racial erasure, and the politics of abortion in The Handmaid's Tale (1985). WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Natali Valdez
- Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
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- Sociology & Anthropology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA
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Thomsen C, Morrison GT. Abortion as Gender Transgression: Reproductive Justice, Queer Theory, and Anti–Crisis Pregnancy Center Activism. SIGNS 2020. [DOI: 10.1086/706487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Gender linked fate explains lower legal abortion support among white married women. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0223271. [PMID: 31600257 PMCID: PMC6786754 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Abortion is uniquely connected to women’s experiences yet women’s attitudes towards legal abortion vary across the pro-choice/anti-abortion spectrum. Existing research has focused on sociodemographic characteristics to explain women’s levels of abortion support. Here, we argue that abortion attitudes vary with women’s perceptions of gender linked fate, or the extent to which some women see their fates as tied to other women. Drawing upon existing research showing that married white women report lower levels of gender linked fate than their non-married counterparts, we assess these relationships for abortion attitudes applying the 2012 American National Election Survey (n = 2,173). Using mediation analysis, we show that lower levels of gender linked fate among married white women (vs. non-married white women) explain their stronger opposition to abortion. As many state governments are increasingly legislating restricted access to legal abortion, understanding factors explaining opposition to legal abortion is urgently important.
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Reiches M. Reproductive Justice and the History of Prenatal Supplementation: Ethics, Birth Spacing, and the “Priority Infant” Model in The Gambia: Winner of the 2019 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. SIGNS 2019. [DOI: 10.1086/703493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Norsigian J. Our Bodies Ourselves and the Women's Health Movement in the United States: Some Reflections. Am J Public Health 2019; 109:844-846. [PMID: 31067102 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2019.305059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Judy Norsigian
- Judy Norsigian is cofounder and current board chair of Our Bodies Ourselves, Chestnut Hill, MA
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El Kotni M, Singer EO. Human Rights and Reproductive Governance in Transnational Perspective. Med Anthropol 2019; 38:118-122. [DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2018.1557164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Mounia El Kotni
- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, CEMS–IMM/UMR-8178, Paris, France
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
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Macleod CI, Feltham-King T. Young pregnant women and public health: introducing a critical reparative justice/care approach using South African case studies. CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2019.1573313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Catriona Ida Macleod
- Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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- Department of Psychology, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa
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Macleod CI. Expanding reproductive justice through a supportability reparative justice framework: the case of abortion in South Africa. CULTURE, HEALTH & SEXUALITY 2019; 21:46-62. [PMID: 29613849 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2018.1447687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2017] [Accepted: 02/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Theoretical refinement of the concept of reproductive justice has been called for. In this paper, I propose the use of a supportability reparative justice approach. Drawing on intra-categorical intersectionality, the supportability aspect starts from the event of a pregnancy to unravel the interwoven embodied and social realities implicated in women experiencing pregnancy as personally supportable/unsupportable, and socially supported/unsupported. The reparative justice aspect highlights the need for social repair in the case of unsupportable pregnancies and relies on Ernesto Verdeja's critical theory of reparative justice in which he outlines four reparative dimensions. Using abortion within the South African context, I show how this framework may be put to use: (1) the facilitation of autonomous decision-making (individual material dimension) requires understanding women within context, and less emphasis on individual-driven 'choice'; (2) the provision of legal, safe state-sponsored healthcare resources (collective material dimension) demands political will and abortion service provision to be regarded as a moral as well as a healthcare priority; (3) overcoming stigma and the spoiled identities (collective symbolic dimension) requires significant feminist action to deconstruct negative discourses and to foreground positive narratives; and (4) understanding individual lived experiences (individual symbolic dimension) means deep listening within the social dynamics of particular contexts.
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- Catriona Ida Macleod
- a Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction, Department of Psychology , Rhodes University , Grahamstown , South Africa
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The Catholic Hierarchy unequivocally bans abortion, defining it as a mortal sin. In Mexico City, where the Catholic Church wields considerable political and popular power, abortion was recently decriminalized in a historic vote. Of the roughly 170,000 abortions that have been carried out in Mexico City's new public sector abortion program to date, more than 60% were among self-reported Catholic women. Drawing on eighteen months of fieldwork, including interviews with 34 Catholic patients, this article examines how Catholic women in Mexico City grapple with abortion decisions that contravene Church teachings in the context of recent abortion reform. Catholic women consistently leveraged the local cultural, economic, and legal context to morally justify their abortion decisions against church condemnation. I argue that Catholic women seeking abortion resist religious injunctions on their reproductive behavior by articulating and asserting their own moral agency grounded in the contextual dimensions of their lives. My analysis informs conversations in medical anthropology on moral decision-making around reproduction and on local dynamics of resistance to reproductive governance. Moreover, my findings speak to the deficiencies of a feminist vision focused narrowly on fertility limitation, versus an expanded framework of reproductive justice that considers as well the need for conditions of income equality and structural supports to facilitate reproduction and parenting among women who desire to keep their pregnancies.
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- Elyse Ona Singer
- Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, 68 Waterman St, Providence, RI, 02919, USA.
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Zavella P. Intersectional Praxis in the Movement for Reproductive Justice: The Respect ABQ Women Campaign. SIGNS 2017. [DOI: 10.1086/688188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Kimport K. Divergent Successes: What the Abortion Rights Movement Can Learn from Marriage Equality's Success. PERSPECTIVES ON SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH 2016; 48:221-227. [PMID: 27495972 DOI: 10.1363/48e10416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2016] [Revised: 05/28/2016] [Accepted: 06/02/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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- Katrina Kimport
- Assistant professor, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
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Mann ES, Cardona V, Gómez CA. Beyond the discourse of reproductive choice: narratives of pregnancy resolution among Latina/o teenage parents. CULTURE, HEALTH & SEXUALITY 2015; 17:1090-1104. [PMID: 25953108 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2015.1038853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Despite the fact that the US teenage birth rate has declined dramatically in recent years, teen births among Latinas are higher than any other racial/ethnic group. Most studies focus on the causes and consequences of early motherhood among Latina teenagers, neglecting other important dimensions of the issue. This study examines how Latina/o teenage parents living in California narrate their experiences with unintended pregnancy resolution. Qualitative analysis reveals three central themes. First, participants expressed shock upon learning they or their partner was pregnant, followed by acceptance about their impending parenthood. Second, participants' views of abortion and adoption largely foreclosed these options as pathways by which to resolve their unintended pregnancies. Third, participants recounted numerous stories of the messages they received from parents, other family members and male partners that were frequently directive regarding how to resolve their pregnancies. These findings have implications for young people's reproductive health and rights, and for reproductive justice more broadly.
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- Emily S Mann
- a Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior , Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina , Columbia , USA
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Carol Mason. How Not to Pimp Out Reproductive Justice: Adventures in Education, Activism, and Accountability. FRONTIERS-A JOURNAL OF WOMEN STUDIES 2013. [DOI: 10.5250/fronjwomestud.34.3.0226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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