Operating Under a Broken System: On Legitimate Abortions and Forced Triage
Cross-posted with permission from the Abortion Gang blog. Coverage of Representative Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comments have ignited a media storm. It’s clear that Akin’s remarks are more than...
View ArticleEvidenced-Based Advocacy: (Mis)-Understanding Abortion Regret
Evidenced-Based Advocacy is a new bi-monthly column that aims to bridge the gap between the research and activist communities. It will profile provocative new abortion research that activists may not...
View ArticleEvidence-Based Advocacy: What Do Low-Income Women Think About Public Funding...
Evidence-Based Advocacy is a bi-monthly column seeking to bridge the gap between the research and activist communities. It will profile provocative new abortion research activists may not otherwise be...
View ArticleEvidence-Based Advocacy: Expanding Our Thinking About “Repeat” Abortions
Evidence-Based Advocacy is a bi-monthly column seeking to bridge the gap between the research and activist communities. It will profile provocative new abortion research that activists may not...
View ArticleEvidence-Based Advocacy: Poverty, Adoption, and Inequality in Perspective
Evidence-Based Advocacy is a column that seeks to bridge the gap between the research and activist communities. It will profile provocative new abortion research that activists may not otherwise be...
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Evidence-Based Advocacy: How Do Abortion Providers Experience Stigma?
Evidence-Based Advocacy is a monthly column seeking to bridge the gap between the research and activist communities by profiling provocative new abortion research that activists may not otherwise be...
View ArticleA Response to Time Magazine: Young People Are Not Fragmenting the Pro-Choice...
There is a lot to be said about this week’s Time cover story, and I’m thankful that others are taking it on. I feel a little awkward about jumping into the fray, since I was quoted in the Time piece...
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Evidence-Based Advocacy: Addressing Pregnancy Ambivalence in Both Women and Men
Evidence-Based Advocacy is a monthly column seeking to bridge the gap between the research and activist communities by profiling provocative new research that activists may not otherwise be able to...
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Medicaid Coverage for Abortion Care Elusive Even in States Where It Is Legal
Evidence-Based Advocacy is a monthly column seeking to bridge the gap between the research and activist communities by profiling provocative new abortion research that activists may not otherwise be...
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Making Progress Toward Destigmatizing Abortion
Abortion stigma is a complicated phenomenon. It affects abortion providers, people who have abortions, and even abortion rights activists, all in different ways. Tackling abortion stigma, especially in...
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What Contributes to a Positive Abortion Experience?
Abortion opponents love to claim that abortion clinics and even abortions themselves hurt women. They invoke these evidence-free beliefs when proposing anti-abortion laws designed to “protect” women...
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Four Ways to Create Culture Change Around Abortion
Take a moment to think back to where you were in November 2010. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Part 1 was in theaters. The song you couldn’t get enough of (or get away from) was Ke$ha’s “Tik...
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Imagining a World Without Abortion Stigma
In honor of the Global Day of Action for Safe and Legal Abortion on September 28, activists and leaders are uniting to combat abortion stigma. This worldwide belief that abortion is socially or morally...
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Groundbreaking Research Aims to Expand Our Knowledge of Abortion Stigma
Abortion stigma—the belief that abortion is socially or morally unacceptable—permeates every level of our culture. Experts note the presence of such stigma in the myths and mischaracterizations of...
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New Research on How to Support Abortion Storytellers
Sharing stories has long been a method of communication and culture change for social justice movements. It allows our movements’ oppressed and vulnerable to speak their truth, often when they have no...
View ArticleEvidence-Based Advocacy: Poverty, Adoption, and Inequality in Perspective
Evidence-Based Advocacy is a column that seeks to bridge the gap between the research and activist communities. It will profile provocative new abortion research that activists may not otherwise be...
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New Research on How to Support Abortion Storytellers
Sharing stories has long been a method of communication and culture change for social justice movements. It allows our movements’ oppressed and vulnerable to speak their truth, often when they have no...
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Abortion Rates Alone Don’t Tell Us What We Need to Know About the State of...
Earlier this week the Associated Press released a report that found the abortion rate in the United States is declining by about 12 percent in almost all states. Across mainstream media reporting on...
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