About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America

Schaler-Haynes, Magda

doi:10.1215/03616878-7104443

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“…77–78). Judges' interpretations of travel distance are important because the nebulous "undue burden" standard requires judges to decide when, where, and under what conditions a long journey to the abortion clinic actually rises to the level of a "substantial obstacle" to access (Sanger, 2017). When does a geographical obstacle become significant?…”

Section: Planned Parenthood Of the Heartland V Iowa Board Of Medicinementioning

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“…Incrementalism has driven the growth in Targeted Restrictions of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws that impose restrictions which are not imposed on other medical facilities that perform similar outpatient procedures (Cohen & Joffe, 2020; Greenhouse & Siegel, 2016). No clear national standard exists to determine which TRAP laws are constitutional, so what is legal varies between states (Sanger, 2017, p. 33). This incrementalist legislative strategy is fundamentally geographical: TRAP laws deliberately impose so many restrictions on abortion clinics that they force clinic closures, reducing abortion's availability and expanding the areas without a single provider (Gold & Nash, 2013).…”

Section: Abortion Law and Anti‐abortion Incrementalismmentioning

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Legal geographies of medication abortion in the USA

Calkin

2021

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Struggles over abortion are generally understood as competing claims about moral values. However, they are also struggles over new technologies that challenge settled notions about pregnancy, foetal life, and reproductive medicine. Medication abortion -abortion with pills -is a technology that has animated these debates since its introduction in the 1980s. Medication abortion fits uneasily into the existing clinical models that have been inscribed in abortion law to regulate surgical abortion . As such, it creates the possibility of an expanded model for abortion provision where a greater range of practitioners, like nurses and midwives, can prescribe and oversee abortion with pills in non-clinical settings and across long distances through telemedicine technology. It also creates the possibility for demedicalised forms of self-managed abortion that take place outside of clinical infrastructure and, crucially for geographical analysis, outside of the spaces in which states are accustomed to surveilling and governing abortion (Calkin, 2019).Medication abortion is widely used in clinical settings for early abortion 1 and outside of clinical settings for clandestine self-managed abortion in countries with restrictive laws (MacDonald, 2020). Medication abortion is a regime of two drugs: mifepristone followed by misoprostol. Mifepristone blocks the hormones that sustain a pregnancy and misoprostol

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Section: Planned Parenthood Of the Heartland V Iowa Board Of Medicinementioning

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Section: Abortion Law and Anti‐abortion Incrementalismmentioning

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Legal geographies of medication abortion in the USA

Calkin

2021

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“…Abortion, the deliberate termination of pregnancy before the foetus reaches viability, remains a contentious issue globally [1]. Annually, approximately 73 million induced abortions are performed worldwide, highlighting public health significance of this topic [2].…”

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Demographic Profile and Clinical Outcomes of Patients Presented after Unsupervised Medical Termination of Pregnancy in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India- A Cross-Sectional Study

Sharma,

Bhatia,

Arora

2024

JAMMR

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Aims: To study the demography, clinical Profile and complications of unsupervised abortion among women in a tertiary care hospital in Bathinda. Study Design: Cross-sectional analytical Study Place and Duration of Study: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda, Punjab, between April 2023 to September 2023 Methodology: We included 100 patients of reproductive age (15-49 years) presented in Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology after unsupervised Medical Termination of Pregnancy. After the necessary intervention, the patients were interviewed using a predesigned proforma. Data were collected after obtaining written informed consent and study was approved by Institutional ethics committee. Data were analyzed by using SPSS 28. Results: A total of 100 patients were included. The mean age of patients was 27.7 years, with most falling within the 20-30 age range. A significant portion had two or more children (52%), and the majority were housewives (61%) from rural areas (62%). Educational levels varied, with 32% completing 12th grade and 6% having a graduate degree or higher. 89% reported within three days. Vaginal bleeding was universal (100%), while pain abdomen was reported in 53% of cases. Reason of MTP included accidental pregnancy (59%) and spacing between children (38%). Complications included Retained products of conception (RPOC) in 37% followed by unaffected pregnancy in 10% of patients. Conclusion: This study highlights the significant burden of unsupervised Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) and its associated complications among women in Bathinda, Punjab. The findings underscore the pressing need for comprehensive reproductive healthcare services and effective implementation of abortion laws to mitigate the adverse outcomes of unsafe abortions.

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About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America

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Demographic Profile and Clinical Outcomes of Patients Presented after Unsupervised Medical Termination of Pregnancy in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India- A Cross-Sectional Study

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