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“I am empowered by this opportunity”: The role of abortion funds as an antidote to abortion stigma
SSM: Qualitative Research in HealthBeyond the many structural obstacles to obtaining abortion care in the United States, abortion stigma is a forceful impediment to accessing timely services and an injurious feature of the experience for some people who have abortions (Sorhaindo & ...
Al Garnsey +5 more
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How Does SNAP Access Prior to Pregnancy Affect Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes?
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Reimposing work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—by removing temporary, location‐based waivers—causes a decline in food assistance participation among childless women. This loss of nutritional support prior to pregnancy is linked to tangible, negative health outcomes for their infants.
SARAH HAMERSMA, MITCHELL MCFARLANE
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BMC Women's Health, 2019 Background The abortion law in Uruguay changed in 2012 to allow first trimester abortion on request. Implementation of the law in Uruguay has been lauded, but barriers to care, including abortion stigma, remain.
Shelly Makleff +6 more
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Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Public health has lost political influence because of a mismatch between the forms of power primarily deployed in this field—knowledge and moral authority—and the forms of power that currently shape societal rules and health outcomes—economic, political, ideological, and physical.
JONATHAN C. HELLER
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PLoS ONE, 2019 BACKGROUND:Abortion draws varied emotions based on individual and societal beliefs. Often, women known to have sought or those seeking abortion services experience stigma and social exclusion within their communities.
Boniface Ayanbekongshie Ushie +5 more
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Stigma related to contraceptive use and abortion in Kenya: scale development and validation
Reproductive Health, 2019 Background Stigma related to abortion and contraceptive use is a serious public health threat for young people, and validated scales to measure this stigma are scarce.
Marlene Makenzius +3 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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Pathways to access self-managed abortion in a Central American country with a total abortion ban [PDF]
Saúde e SociedadeRestrictive laws, limited services and stigma shape access to abortion in Central America. This qualitative study examined pathways to access information and medication abortion in a country with a total abortion ban.
Chiara Bercu +5 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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