Tag: Stigma

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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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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Second trimester abortion provision: breaking the silence and changing the discourse

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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.

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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

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Books

Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

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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

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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.

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Stigma and abortion complications in the United States.

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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.

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Internet articles Opinion

Hollywood and the Matter-of-Fact Abortion

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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.

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Documentary Videos

Abortion Storytelling: Web Video Series

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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.