"This Is My Calling": Experiences, Challenges, and Motivations of Abortion Clinic Employees and Volunteers at a Midwestern Clinic

The past two decades have seen significant reforms in abortion law throughout Australia. From the perspective of advancing women’s reproductive rights, the most significant abortion law reforms have been the decriminalisation of abortion, removal of impediments to accessing medical abortion, the imposition of an ‘obligation to refer’ on medical practitioners with a conscientious objection to abortion, and the introduction of safe access zones around abortion clinics. This article focuses on the introduction of safe access zones as a key legal reform that has been implemented across Australia to support and promote women’s reproductive rights, drawing on empirical research conducted by the first and second authors and discussing this research in the context of the recent High Court decision confirming the constitutionality of safe access zones.

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Selecting an Abortion Clinic: The Role of Social Myths and Risk Perception in Seeking Abortion Care

Journal of Health and Social Behavior ◽

10.1177/00221465211044413 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002214652110444

Author(s):

Orlaith Heymann ◽

Tamika Odum ◽

Alison H. Norris ◽

Danielle Bessett

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Risk Perception ◽

Health Care Facilities ◽

Previous Experience ◽

Care Seeking ◽

Abortion Care ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Abortion Clinic

Recent shifts in the abortion provision landscape have generated increased concern about how people find abortion care as regulations make abortion less accessible and clinics close. Few studies examine the reasons that people select particular facilities in such constrained contexts. Drawing from interviews with 41 Ohio residents, we find that people’s clinic selections are influenced by the risks they associate with abortion care. Participants’ strategies for selecting an abortion clinic included: drawing on previous experience with clinics, consulting others online, discerning reputation through name recognition and clinic type, and considering location, especially perceptions about place (privacy, legality, safety). We argue that social myths inform the risks people anticipate when seeking health care facilities, shaping care seeking in ways that are both abortion-specific and more general. These findings can also inform research in other health care contexts where patients increasingly find their options constrained by rising costs, consolidation, and facility closure.

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Retrochorial hematoma: principles of complex therapy

Journal of obstetrics and women s diseases ◽

10.17816/jowd614104-108 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 61 (4) ◽

pp. 104-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lilia Dmitriyevna Solovova ◽

Olga Igorevna Lineva ◽

Yulia Anatolyevna Artych ◽

Anna Vladimirovna Kazakova ◽

Inna Alekseyevna Berdnikova

Keyword(s):

Pregnant Women ◽

Standard Method ◽

Complex Therapy ◽

Abortion Clinic

In the article there are the hormonal and immunological aspects of pathogenesis retroсhorial hematomas in women with treatened abortion, clinic and diagnosis of this complication. Analysis of efficiency complex therapy with using of Dydrogesterone and Wobenzym were carried out among 80 pregnant women in comparison with standard method of therapy.

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