Contraception | By Lisa Harris | December 2014
Unfortunately due to copyright issues, we cannot post the full text of this paper. We have linked to the abstract and if you are a student or have access otherwise to research databases, you should be able to access the full text through those channels.
Contraception | By Lisa Harris | August 2013
Unfortunately due to copyright issues, we cannot post the full text of this paper. We have linked to the abstract and if you are a student or have access otherwise to research databases, you should be able to access the full text through those channels.
Reproductive Health Matters | By Lisa Harris | May 2008
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Social Science & Medicine | By Lisa Harris, Michelle Debbink, Lisa Martin, and Jane Hassinger | Oct 2011
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Book | By Katie Watson | 2019
In this book, Katie Watson addresses the ethics and laws that surround abortion in the United States while also discussing the rampant stigma that surrounds this common procedure. She calls for more discussion and communication about this medical procedure that plays a role in so many people’s lives and delves into the concept of abortion as a “moral good.”
For a review of Scarlet A:
Stories from Stigma: Why Can’t We Openly Discuss Abortion?
And ‘Scarlet A’ Wants Less Shouting About Abortion and More Talking
Contraception (journal) | By Lisa Harris | Jan 2013
In this piece, Dr. Harris describes the impact of abortion stigma on practitioners. She outlines the challenge of the “legitimacy paradox.” While highly qualified clinicians provide abortion care, they are portrayed as deviant or illegitimate providers due to the abortion stigma. This paradox then further contributes to the secrecy surrounding abortion provision, shortages of providers, and misrepresentation of providers.
Obstetrics and Gynecology (The Green Journal) | By Lisa Harris | Dec 2012
Lisa Harris is an Ob/Gyn whose research focuses on reproductive justice by studying the intersection of obstetrics and gynecology with social belief, policy, law, and public rhetoric. She has published a wealth of research on the impacts of abortion stigma. In this article, Dr. Harris asserts that stigma can lead to adverse medical outcomes in abortion care as she details the experiences of two patients whose need to keep their abortion care a secret directly led to medical complications.
nytimes.com | By Cara Buckley | July 18, 2019
While depictions of abortion on TV used to be scarce and highly dramatized, Hollywood is beginning to portray abortion care and the decision to have an abortion more realistically and in more diverse settings. This New York Times article provides examples of TV portrayals of abortion that both normalize abortion care and resist media’s culture of exceptionalizing reproductive healthcare.
http://publicsquaremedia.org/nochoice/ | 2018
In this series, people who have accessed abortion care, as well as one physician who provides abortion care, tell their stories and ponder what the United States might look like without Roe v. Wade mandating abortions be legal.
thenib.com | By Candice Russell | May 30, 2017
This excerpt from Comics for Choice demonstrates that people’s dynamic life situations inform their reproductive decisions. Through one person’s story of deciding to have two abortions at different times and in two distinct life circumstances, they portray that the decision to have an abortion results from diverse life experiences. Further, this piece makes the argument that no one ever owes anyone else an explanation for their decision to have an abortion.
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