No Doctors Required: Lay Activist Expertise and Pharmaceutical Abortion in Argentina

McReynolds-Pérez, Julia

doi:10.1086/688183

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“…Rather, applying a structural violence lens means that we can also understand how people (as individuals, communities and solidarities) resist and contest structural conditions. From individual acts of resistance that refuse to internalize abortion stigma or shame, 53,54 to collective acts that operate outside of systems of structural violence through the provision of hotlines or web-based services for medication abortion, 55 to population-level overturning 56 or delaying 57 of structurally violent laws, the presence of these acts of resistance reveals the structural violence in operation. For example, young women in Kenya exercised agency and self-reliance to procure abortion, prioritizing their own health care needs above felt or perceived societal stigma.…”

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“…54 In Argentina, activists conducted a direct-action campaign to make medical abortion information available to those seeking abortions. 55 And in the Republic of Ireland, a constitutional amendment that denied lawful access to abortion care in nearly all situations was repealed following widespread activist movements for a referendum on the issue. 56 •It interrogates "everyday violence" experienced across a trajectory.…”

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COVID-19 and Abortion: Making Structural Violence Visible

Nandagiri¹,

Coast²,

Strong³

2020

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

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Section: Why Is Structural Violence Relevant For Abortion Research?mentioning

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COVID-19 and Abortion: Making Structural Violence Visible

Nandagiri¹,

Coast²,

Strong³

2020

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

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“…En los últimos años emerge un incipiente subcampo referido al activismo feminista en relación con el aborto medicamentoso. Por un lado, la emergencia de líneas telefónicas que brindan información sobre medicamentos para abortar ha llamado la atención de investigadoras (Mines et al, 2013a(Mines et al, , 2013bDrovetta, 2016;Mcreynolds-Pérez, 2017). Mientras que otras, particularmente, se concentraron en el activismo socorrista Zurbriggen, 2014;Camejo, 2015;Maffeo et al, 2015;Burton 2017cBurton , 2018Burton y Peralta, 2016;Peralta, 2016;Anzorena, 2017;Zurbriggen et al, 2018).…”

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Los estudios sobre aborto en Argentina. Un estado de la cuestión

Burton¹

2021

Cad. Pagu

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Resumen Las acciones colectivas por el derecho al aborto fueron acompañadas por la elaboración de argumentos sólidos desde una multiplicidad de campos de conocimiento. El objetivo de este artículo es realizar un mapeo de las investigaciones sobre aborto en la Argentina. A partir de la revisión de la literatura especializada y su sistematización se advierte la existencia de una extensa tradición de estudios sobre aborto en Argentina, la multiplicidad de perspectivas desde las cuales se ha abordado el tema y algunas de las áreas de vacancia en este campo de saberes.

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“…Legal barriers are just one piece of the broader structural stigma encountered by those who seek abortion, characterized by "societal-level conditions, cultural norms, and institutional policies that constrain the opportunities, resources, and well-being of the stigmatized" (Hatzenbuehler and Link, 2014). In response to these constraints, numerous studies from across the world document the use of abortion medications outside of the formal healthcare system (Baxerres et al, n.d.;Guedes, 2000;McReynolds-Pérez, 2017;Singh et al, 2018aSingh et al, , 2018bZurbriggen et al, 2018). Although self-managed medication abortion is an international phenomenon, we know little about how women's perceptions and experiences of abortion may also be changing.…”

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The changing landscape of abortion care: Embodied experiences of structural stigma in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Broussard

2020

Social Science & Medicine

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The private use of abortion medication outside of the formal healthcare setting is an international phenomenon. Despite new and expanding pathways to abortion access, we know little about how women's perceptions and experiences of abortion may also be changing. This study examines the embodied experience of 68 women who sought abortion services in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Social stigma and restrictive abortion laws were major barriers to care at the time of study, providing the opportunity to explore the ways biological, social, and structural factors shape embodiment. Those who obtained an abortion either traveled abroad for clinical care or self-managed a medication abortion at home. Participant's perceptions of pain, the fetus, the method (medication vs. surgical), and environment in which they sought abortion care (at home vs. in a clinic) were shaped by structural stigma. Women gained greater experiential knowledge through medication self-management, allowing them to relate abortion to other natural bodily processes and redefine their beliefs about pregnancy and the fetus. Preferences and attitudes about the environment of abortion care were informed by stigma and differential perceptions of risk. Those who traveled most often emphasized legal and medical risks of abortion at home, while those who self-managed emphasized social, financial, and emotional risks of pursuing clinical abortion care abroad. Given the increase in reproductive self-care alternatives, these findings situate self-managed abortion in the literature of (de)medicalization and reveal the ways technology and structural factors shape perceptions and beliefs about pain, the fetus, method, and environment. For some, self-managed medication abortion may be a preferred pathway to care. Policies that consider medication self-management as part of a spectrum of legitimate options can improve abortion access for marginalized groups while also offering an improved abortion experience for those who prefer medication abortion and an out-of-clinic environment.

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No Doctors Required: Lay Activist Expertise and Pharmaceutical Abortion in Argentina

Cited by 33 publications

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COVID-19 and Abortion: Making Structural Violence Visible

COVID-19 and Abortion: Making Structural Violence Visible

Los estudios sobre aborto en Argentina. Un estado de la cuestión

The changing landscape of abortion care: Embodied experiences of structural stigma in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

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