Stigma and abortion complications: stories from three continents
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019 Complications from abortion, while rare, are to be expected, as with any medical procedure. While the vast majority of serious abortion complications occur in parts of the world where abortion is legally restricted, legal access to abortion is not a ...
Lisa Martin, Lisa H Harris
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Abortion stigma among abortion seekers, healthcare professionals and the public in high-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review protocol [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction Abortion is a crucial sexual and reproductive right. However, the legal situation of pregnancy termination is rather heterogeneous across countries and regions.
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Challenging abortion stigma: framing abortion in Ireland and Poland [PDF]
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019 Abortion stigma, while observable as a global phenomenon, is constructed locally through various pathways and institutions, and at the intersection of transnational and local discourses.
Pauline Cullen, Elżbieta Korolczuk
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Why does abortion stigma matter? A scoping review and hybrid analysis of qualitative evidence illustrating the role of stigma in the quality of abortion care [PDF]
Social Science and Medicine, 2022 Sorhaindo AM, Lavelanet AF.
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‘Moving People up the Sympathy Spectrum’: Building Hypotheses About How Abortion Values Clarification and Attitude Transformation (VCAT) Can Change Healthcare Provider Behaviours [PDF]
Health ExpectationsBackground Abortion stigma limits access to person‐centred abortion care globally. Values clarification and attitude transformation (VCAT) is widely used to address abortion stigma and recommended by the World Health Organization to train abortion ...
Shelly Makleff +4 more
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Just-word beliefs and community-level abortion stigma: An exploratory survey [PDF]
Contraception, 2023 Bliss Kaneshiro, Katalin Csiszár
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Abortion care pathways in Addis Ababa healthcare facilities: a qualitative descriptive study [PDF]
Reproductive HealthBackground Understanding how women navigate induced abortion care pathways is critical to ensuring person-centred, quality reproductive health services.
Negash Wakgari +4 more
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Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2022 The SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic heightened restrictions on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), especially concerning safe abortion access.
Amanda Tiew +3 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background Abortion stigma involves the stereotyping of, discrimination against, and delegitimization of those who seek and provide abortion. Experiences of abortion care are shaped by stigma at the meso (e.g., lack of local providers) and macro (e.g ...
Shelly Makleff +5 more
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“I felt like I was a bad person… which I’m not”: Stigmatization in crisis pregnancy centers
SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022 Stigma is present throughout everyday interactions but has particular salience for people seeking abortion care. Using Goffman’s conceptualization of stigma as a marker and enforcer of social ostracization, we expand on existing understandings of ...
Evangeline Warren +5 more
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