Abortion Access for Imprisoned Women: Marginalized Medical Care for a Marginalized Group

Roth, Rachel

doi:10.1016/j.whi.2011.01.011

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“…This may make seeking an abortion from behind bars incredibly difficult and may result in lengthy delays in care. Roth's 2011 commentary piece details policies regarding access to abortion care and pregnancy options counseling [20]. She states that one-third of states have policies mandating prison staff to inform women of all their pregnancy options, including abortion.…”

Section: Key Question 2: Can Incarcerated Women Access Contraceptive mentioning

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“…Respondents were also asked about their contraceptive choices if money and availability did not matter, and 4.7% reported that they would pursue tubal ligation and a larger proportion opted for the contraceptive injection. As discussed under key question 1, only 25% of reproductively capable women had access to an OB/GYN prior to (20) incarceration, and only 57% of individuals believed that they would still have access to health care after release. In another population, Oswalt et al in 2010 found only 38.5% of women desired to become pregnant after release from jail [31].…”

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Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

Peart

Knittel

2020

Contracept Reprod Med

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Context: Seventy-five percent of incarcerated women are of reproductive age, most of whom are at-risk for unintended pregnancy. Women who are incarcerated come disproportionately from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds and often lack access to desired reproductive health care. While the carceral system provides a unique opportunity to fill this gap, a better understanding of the contraceptive needs, desires, and plans of incarcerated women is needed to optimize health care provision within the carceral system. A review of current contraceptive services available to women inmates may both identify model care programs and shed light on areas for improvement. Evidence acquisition: PubMed electronic database used to identify relevant articles published between January 1975 and September 2019 using a systematic review method. Results: Twenty-five articles met the inclusion criteria and answered four key questions surrounding contraception in the carceral system. Most articles (48%) represented scientific research. Other publications identified by this review were expert commentaries, policy briefings, guidance and recommendations reports, and law and bioethics reviews. Conclusions: Incarcerated women desire access to standard and emergency contraception from carceral health care systems. Knowledgeable family planning practitioners providing patient-centered and trauma-informed care and public health interventions linking newly released inmates to community clinics can help alleviate inmates' concerns regarding initiating desired contraception while incarcerated.

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Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

Peart

Knittel

2020

Contracept Reprod Med

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“…It is also reported that there is a lack of standardization in abortion services and there is no full access to abortion services (20). In this case, it shows that female prisoners do not have equal rights like other pregnant women in the population when deciding whether or not to continue their pregnancy (21). In addition, when the profiles of female prisoners are examined, they are generally from mothers with children between the ages of 30 and 40 and under 18 (50-80%); generally consists of low educational level, socioeconomically disadvantaged groups (3,22).…”

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Reproductive Health Problems in Prisoner Women

Yaşar¹

2021

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The number of female prisoners in the prison population is gradually increasing. Women prisoners are in a special category for the protection and fulfilment of their human rights. Disadvantages increase when incarceration is added to the reproductive health problems of women. It is important that prison conditions are arranged for women and that preventive health services are provided. The aim of this study is to examine reproductive health problems and provide recommendations for prisoners women in the light of the literature.

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“…These risk behaviors may contribute to unintended pregnancy rates as high as 83% among recently incarcerated women, compared with the national rate of 45% (Finer & Zolna, 2016;Ramaswamy, Chen, Cropsey, Clarke, & Kelly, 2015). Although pregnancy behind bars has been studied extensively (Clarke & Simon, 2013;Mukherjee, Pierre-Victor, Bahelah, & Madhivanan, 2014;Roth, 2010Roth, , 2011Sutherland, 2013), postincarceration pregnancy outcomes remain understudied, though one study linked delivery within a year of incarceration to worse perinatal health behaviors, and a second study linked delivery to increased risk of fetal and newborn smoking exposure (Dumont et al, 2014;Dumont, Parker, Viner-Brown, & Clarke, 2015).…”

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Outcomes among pregnant recently incarcerated women attending a reentry transitions clinic

Morse

Wilson

Driffill

et al. 2018

Journal Community Psychology

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This mixed methods retrospective case series and qualitative descriptive study describes pregnancy outcomes during the postincarceration period. A retrospective case series via electronic medical record chart review from a subset of women attending a postincarceration primary care clinic with a condition of interest (pregnancy) described demographics, substance use, diagnoses, and pregnancy outcomes. We compared 27 pregnant to 79 nonpregnant women and contextualized quantitative data with qualitative descriptive vignettes. Twenty‐seven women completed 29 pregnancies (2 women with 2 deliveries each), all of which were unplanned; there were 11 live births, 8 pregnant at study closure, 7 miscarriages, and 3 terminations. Although substance use history was high, rates were higher among nonpregnant women (92% vs 74%). Among the 5 births, 4 tested positive for substance use during pregnancy. All 11 infants had pregnancy or delivery complications. Although 7 of the 10 pregnant women with live births had prior pregnancy complications, only 4 were placed in a special care obstetrics clinic. Although unplanned pregnancies were common, most births did not demonstrate maternal substance use. All live births had pregnancy or delivery complications, but few were accepted to specialist prenatal care, suggesting potential considerations for recently incarcerated women.

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Abortion Access for Imprisoned Women: Marginalized Medical Care for a Marginalized Group

Cited by 4 publications

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Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

Reproductive Health Problems in Prisoner Women

Outcomes among pregnant recently incarcerated women attending a reentry transitions clinic

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