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
Unfortunately due to copyright issues, we cannot post the full text of this papers. 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.
Social Science & Medicine | By Lisa Harris, Michelle Debbink, Lisa Martin, and Jane Hassinger | Oct 2011
Unfortunately due to copyright issues, we cannot post the full text of this papers. 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 (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.
innovating-education.org/ | By Lori Freedman | UCSD | Slide deck
This slide deck provides an introduction to what abortion stigma is and how it impacts medical care. It was produced by an organization called Innovating Education at the University of California San Francisco, which produces evidence-based educational materials on abortion and contraceptive care.
pewforum.org | By David Masci | Jan 16, 2013
Pew Research Center outlines the hallmark SCOTUS cases about abortion until 2013. They explain the significance of each case as well as the basis on which it was decided. Of note, since this was compiled in 2013, it does not include some recent important cases.
BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health | By Nichole Austin and Sam Harper | Mar 9, 2018
This paper is a systematic review of the existing literature on the health impacts of TRAP laws. For those interested in scholarly resources, this is a useful article to understand the strengths and limitations of current evidence regarding the health impact of TRAP laws.
guttmacher.org | January 2020
The Guttmacher Institute regularly updates this web-page which outlines existing TRAP laws and the states in which they are currently active.
guttmacher.org | February 2018
This Guttmacher Institute web-page is a toolkit for advocates, service providers, and policymakers to access data and information regarding the content of TRAP laws and their impacts on pregnant people. As described by the Guttmacher Institute, “[this toolkit] includes information on state laws and policies, a synthesis of the relevant research, information on states in which the issue has been debated in the past three years and links to state-specific data.”
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