Abortion exile: navigating Mexico’s fractured abortion landscape

Singer, Elyse Ona

doi:10.1080/13691058.2019.1631963

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“…These scholars critique the language of medical tourism , which suggests a leisurely vacation and feelings of agency and choice. Some who seek treatment abroad experience feelings of betrayal by their home health system and such severe constraints on their treatment options that they are forced to seek care elsewhere, facing risk and hardship in the process (Gilmartin and White 2011; Inhorn and Patrizio 2009; Ona Singer 2020).…”

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

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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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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, travel features prominently in patients’ accounts of care seeking (White et al 2016). Those seeking abortion may share with other medical travelers the experience of going long distances for care to unfamiliar locations and from providers and facilities they do not know (Gilmartin and White 2011; Ona Singer 2020).…”

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

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“…This line of thinking also suggests that the word ‘tourism’ erases the emotional and embodied nature of abortion travel with its connotations of pleasure and adventure‐seeking; as Freeman explains, abortion tourism is a problematic term that ‘erases the struggle, pain, shame and fear that travelling for abortions entails for many women’ (2017, p. 854). In lieu of describing abortion travel as tourism, scholars have proposed a number of alternative terms, just as in reproductive mobilities: exile (Kasstan & Crook, 2018; Singer, 2020), banishment (Kelly & Tuszynski, 2016), ‘sometimes‐migrating’ (Murray & Khan, 2020), enforced migration (Mecinska et al., 2020), and those travelling as ‘abortion refugees’ (Chambers et al., 2019). While these terms serve to challenge the notion that abortion travel could accurately be described as ‘tourism’, other geographers have found tourism to be a useful lens for examining abortion travel and mobilities.…”

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Abortion mobilities

Engle

2022

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Abortion mobilities emerged within political geography and the reproductive mobilities scholarship to address extant theoretical and empirical gaps in these fields. This paper seeks to highlight and assess the abortion mobilities scholarship to date. Starting with a working definition of abortion mobilities, this paper argues for the relevance of abortion to political geography and outlines three key themes in political geography that abortion mobilities address: borders, states and anti-genderism, intersectional politics and reproductive justice, and activism and abortion pills.

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“…The negative experiences of abortion journeys are emotional as well as embodied and fear is another common narrative. While the overwhelming majority of women do not regret their abortion ( Rocca et al 2015 ), the experience of having to travel can make women feel ‘banished’ ( Kelly and Tuszynski 2016 ), in ‘reproductive exile’ ( Inhorn and Patrizio 2009 ) or in ‘abortion exile’ ( Singer 2019a ). For Kelly and Tuszynski (2016, 26) , women ‘ … are reminded at each step of their journey that they are undeserving of medical care at home’.…”

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“…Women are also often negotiating patriarchal control from their partner or family with the fear of being caught. Similarly, Singer’s (2019a) work on women who travel from other states to Mexico City for a legal abortion highlights the multiple obstacles they face. Practicalities around travel time, available transport, and childcare affected how travel is experienced, if they were able to travel at all.…”

Section: The Abortion Journeymentioning

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Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities

Freeman

2020

Mobilities

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Scholarship on abortion travel has examined the places women travel between and why such journeys are necessary. However, there has been scant attention paid to the journeys themselves and how these journeys are undertaken. This paper uses William Walters' notion of 'viapolitics' to better attend to how people travel by focussing on the role of vehicles in abortion politics. This takes three parts: an exploration of the emotional and embodied journeys that women have to take to access abortions; the role of the vehicle as a site of political activism around abortion rights; and the transportation of abortion medication. Viapolitics has to date only been used within migration politics but as this paper shows, it has utility beyond this field to interrogate abortion travels and highlight the role of vehicles in abortion access as well as to explore how abortion transport can be emancipatory for women. This paper furthers viapolitics by arguing that we need to consider the journeys of 'things' and not just people. In the case of abortion access, it is the transportation of abortion medication rather than the travel of women that is the most socially just solution to discriminatory laws and extra-legal barriers.

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Abortion exile: navigating Mexico’s fractured abortion landscape

Cited by 16 publications

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

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

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