Tag: abortion providers

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Podcast

The “How Does an Abortion Provider Work?” Edition

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Working (podcast) | slate.com | By Jacob Brogan | November 22, 2016

While everyone’s careers and life experiences are different, in this podcast Dr. Diane Horvath-Cosper provides a candid and honest perspective on what her life as an abortion provider looks like both personally and professionally. She describes the challenges many abortion providers face due to legal restrictions that make delivering medical care more challenging as well as the personal challenges of working in a field so stigmatized. 

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The Scarcity of Abortion Training in America’s Medical Schools

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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.

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41 Things You Should Know About Abortion and the Doctors That Perform Them

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buzzfeed.com | By Caroline Kee | April 19, 2017

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Scholarly works

Abortion providers, stigma and professional quality of life

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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.

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Dynamics of stigma in abortion work: findings from a pilot study of the Providers Share Workshop

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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.

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Physicians, abortion provision and the legitimacy paradox.

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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.