theatlantic.com | By Mara Gordon | June 9, 2015
Dr. Mara Gordon describes her experiences training as a medical student and resident in Philadelphia, which is a liberal and generally pro-choice city. She contrasts these experiences with medical students who train in more conservative, and anti-choice environments where education on abortion care is scarce and often inaccessible.
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.
jezebel.com | By Katie McDonough | Jun 28, 2018
In this piece, Katie McDonough tells her own story, as well as those of others, about her forced pregnancy as a result of inaccessible abortion care. Through the poignant and unjust stories of people seeking reproductive healthcare, she asserts that “after Roe” is a reality for many today.
huffpost.com | By Caitlin Bancroft | Aug 15, 2013
A NARAL Pro-Choice legal intern, Caitlin Bancroft, went undercover in a CPC to better understand what counseling sessions look like in these clinics. She details her experience of being shamed, given false medical information, and coerced into keeping her pregnancy (which in reality did not exist).
theguardian.com | By Adrian Horton | Apr 24, 2019
Using terminology like “heartbeat” bill is medically inaccurate. This article demonstrates the risks of using this language in policy and legislation.
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