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Self-managed abortion in urban Haiti: a mixed-methods study [PDF]

BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 2018
Objective Although illegal abortion is believed to be widely practised in Haiti, few data exist on such practices. We aimed to learn about illegal abortion access, methods, and perceived barriers to abortion-related care.
Erin Nicole, Berry-Bibee, Clotilde Josamine, St Jean, Nathan M, Nickerson, Lisa B, Haddad, Manuchca Marc, Alcime, Eva H, Lathrop   +5 more
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Alone on an Island

Voices in Bioethics, 2022
Malta is a small predominantly Catholic island-nation in the Mediterranean ocean and there is a complete ban on abortion in the country –  there are no exemptions for rape, incest, fetal anomalies, or to save a pregnant woman’s life.
Erin Kwolek
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Telemedical and Self-Managed Abortion: A Human Rights Imperative? [PDF]

European Journal of Health Law, 2022
Abstract Early into the COVID-19 pandemic, abortion rights advocates highlighted the importance of maintaining access to abortion through telemedicine. It was argued that telemedical and self-managed abortion was, in the pandemic context, a human rights imperative.
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Automating untruths: ChatGPT, self-managed medication abortion, and the threat of misinformation in a post-Roe world

Frontiers in Digital Health
BackgroundChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot that uses natural language processing to understand and execute prompts in a human-like manner.
Hayley V. McMahon, Hayley V. McMahon, Bryan D. McMahon   +2 more
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Studying Accompaniment model Feasibility and Effectiveness (SAFE) Study: study protocol for a prospective observational cohort study of the effectiveness of self-managed medication abortion

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction A range of barriers deter or prevent people from accessing facility-based abortion care. As a result, people are obtaining and using abortifacient medications to end their pregnancies outside of the formal healthcare system, without clinical
Caitlin Gerdts, Ruvani T Jayaweera, Heidi Moseson, Brianna Keefe-Oates, Sofia Filippa, Relebohile Motana, Chiara Bercu, Ijeoma Egwuatu, Belen Grosso, Ika Ayu Kristianingrum, Sybil Nmezi, Ruth Zurbriggen, Emmeline Friedman   +12 more
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Reach, experience, and acceptability of an abortion self-care intervention in Bolivia: a mixed-methods evaluation

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023
In 2018, Ipas Bolivia launched an abortion self-care (ASC) community intervention with the goal of increasing access to supportive, well-informed abortion support provided by community agents (CAs).
Valerie N. Acre, Stephanie Andrea Küng, Christiam Arce, Adela Yapu, Delmy Iriondo, Malena Morales   +5 more
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Social inequalities in utilization of a feminist telehealth abortion service in Brazil: A multilevel analysis

Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2022
The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on health services around the world boosted interest over telehealth models of care. In Brazil, where abortion is heavily restricted, abortion seekers have long relied on international telehealth services to
Sara Larrea, Laia Palència, Laia Palència, Laia Palència, Mariana Prandini Assis, Carme Borrell, Carme Borrell, Carme Borrell, Carme Borrell   +8 more
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In-person later abortion accompaniment: a feminist collective-facilitated self-care practice in Latin America

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
In Argentina, Chile and Ecuador, abortion at later durations of pregnancy is legally restricted. Feminist collectives in these contexts support people through self-managed medical abortion outside the healthcare system.
Chiara Bercu, Heidi Moseson, Julia McReynolds-Pérez, Emily Wilkinson Salamea, Belén Grosso, María Trpin, Ruth Zurbriggen, Carolina Cisternas, Milena Meza, Viviana Díaz, Katrina Kimport   +10 more
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Medical abortion ratios and gender equality in Europe: an ecological correlation study

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2021
Medical abortion (MA) is recommended by the WHO as a safe and effective pregnancy termination method in the first trimester. From a feminist perspective, it is a non-medicalised, self-managed, emancipating procedure allowing persons seeking abortion to ...
Céline Miani
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Autonomous Health Movements: Criminalization, De-Medicalization, and Community-Based Direct Action [PDF]

Health and Human Rights, 2020
This paper proposes the concept of autonomous health movements, drawing on an analysis of harm reduction in the United States and self-managed abortion globally.
Naomi Braine
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