When the Punishment is Pregnancy: Carceral Restriction of Abortion in the United States

Sufrin, Carolyn

doi:10.14506/ca34.1.06

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“…21 International research suggests regulatory and financial restrictions act as significant barriers to abortion access for people in prison. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28] In many health systems, including Canada, the direct costs of medication and aspiration abortion procedures are covered by Medicare. However, patients may face supplemental private costs, such as travel, which are inequitably experienced.…”

Section: Abortion Rate In Prisonsmentioning

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The Intersection of Abortion and Criminalization: Abortion Access for People in Prisons

Paynter

Norman

2022

Semin Reprod Med

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Most incarcerated women are of reproductive age, and more than a third of women will have an abortion during their reproductive years. Although women are the fastest growing population in Canadian prisons, no one has studied the effect of their incarceration on access to abortion services. Studies outside of Canada indicate rates of abortion are higher among people experiencing incarceration than in the general population, and that abortion access is often problematic. Although international standards for abortion care among incarcerated populations exist, there conversely appear to be no Canadian guidelines or procedures to facilitate unintended pregnancy prevention or management. Barriers to abortion care inequitably restrict people with unintended pregnancy from attaining education and employment opportunities, cause entrenchment in violent relationships, and prevent people from choosing to parent when they are ready and able. Understanding and facilitating equitable access to abortion care for incarcerated people is critical to address structural, gender-, and race-based reproductive health inequities, and to promote reproductive justice. There is an urgent need for research in this area to direct best practices in clinical care and support policies capable to ensure equal access to abortion care for incarcerated people.

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Section: Abortion Rate In Prisonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Intersection of Abortion and Criminalization: Abortion Access for People in Prisons

Paynter

Norman

2022

Semin Reprod Med

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“…Elise Andaya (2019), in turn, locates the uterus as a ground of contestation between bodily sovereignty and state sovereignty in the elaboration of a white nativist politics in the United States. Rita Cromer (2019, 22) demonstrates how reproductive politics dictate terms of federal immigration policy, as in the case of Jane Doe, a seventeen‐year‐old undocumented immigrant from Central America whose initial request for an abortion was blocked by federal officials who argued it “could incentivize illegal immigration by pregnant minors.” Carolyn Sufrin (2019, 38) attends to the limits of the “language of choice” vis‐à‐vis incarcerated women who are denied access to reproductive rights afforded to an ideal liberal subject. Dána‐Ain Davis (2019), drawing on the Black feminist criticism of Saidiya Hartman (2007, 2019), regards racial disparities in birth outcomes as a technology of control over the reproductive labor of Black women who are likewise excluded from the trademark protections of citizenship in the “afterlife of slavery.”…”

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The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019

Jobson

2020

American Anthropologist

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This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scholarly inquiry and as existential threats to the reproduction of the discipline. Taking the 2018 American Anthropological Association meeting in San Jose as a point of departure, this essay posits the California wildfires as an immanent challenge to anthropological practice. Pace Mike Davis, the case for letting anthropology burn entails a call to abandon its liberal suppositions. As a discourse of moral perfectibility founded in histories of settler colonialism and chattel slavery, liberal humanism and its anthropological register of ethnographic sentimentalism proved insufficient to confront the existential threats of climate catastrophe and authoritarian retrenchment in 2019. The case for letting anthropology burn is fortified by efforts to unsettle the conceptual and methodological preoccupations of the discipline in service of political projects of repatriation, repair, and abolition. By abandoning the universal liberal subject as a stable foil for a renewed project of cultural critique, the field of anthropology cannot presume a coherent human subject as its point of departure but must adopt a radical humanism as its political horizon. [sociocultural anthropology, settler colonialism, afterlives of slavery, climate change, the human]

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“…It is impossible, for example, to understand the recent rise of alt-right ethnonationalism in the United States without parsing its familiar intersectional grammar, according to which the protection of whiteness depends upon the upholding of traditional gender roles anchored to a 'home' territory that can be defended by force, in the name of God and as a natural right (Briggs, 2017). The white nuclear patriarchal Christian family is at the root and centre of this ideology, and the protection of this foundational ethos is how the politics of abortion, militarism, immigration, gun ownership and gender binarism are linked to the racialisation of crime, the prison industrial complex and the caging of young children at the borders in the United States (Sufrin, 2019). When Trump sought Open Forum 135S to legally enshrine gender binarism in the American Constitution he was using gender as a proxyand a condensed signifier-for all of these things in a 'culture war' primarily defined by 'winners' and 'losers'.…”

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Gender as a proxy: Diagnosing and resisting carceral genderisms

Franklin¹

2022

European Journal of Women's Studies

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brief-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-women-en.pdf?la=en&vs=1406 2. The symposium was planned by madeleine kennedy-macfoy and Ulrika Dahl and organized on Zoom through the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The organisers would like to thank managing editor Hazel Johnstone for helping with logistics, Lucia Pedrioli and Rebecka White for excellent technical support with building, distributing and carrying out the programme and Ana Sevillano, Béa Manigat, Meryld Koui, Yaili Meneses and Loreto Rodriguez Untoria for providing simultaneous translation of the symposium into French and Spanish. We also thank all the contributing speakers, the roughly 50 academics, students, and activists from all over Europe and beyond who participated, and last, but certainly not least, the board of associate editors of European Journal of Women's Studies and former senior editor Kathy Davis for all their contributions and hard work in making this event happen. 3. https://www.luminafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/covid-lessons-for-globalhigher-education.pdf 4. ibid

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When the Punishment is Pregnancy: Carceral Restriction of Abortion in the United States

Cited by 12 publications

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The Intersection of Abortion and Criminalization: Abortion Access for People in Prisons

The Intersection of Abortion and Criminalization: Abortion Access for People in Prisons

The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019

Gender as a proxy: Diagnosing and resisting carceral genderisms

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