The Research
What it is
Abortion Clinic Closures and Care Churn is a mixed-methods project that includes studies to examine how abortion facilities and health care providers respond to regulatory restrictions. The projects also assess what policies, laws, and regulations contribute to facility closures and changes in service delivery. It describes impacts of facility closures and responses to regulatory changes on abortion availability in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Why It's Important
An undeniable factor in the patient experience is the environment in which they seek and receive care. The studies in this project allow us to understand better the complexity of the reproductive healthcare landscape in Ohio and the surrounding states – and the impact of that complexity.
Our Papers
- Care Churn — Why Keeping Clinic Doors Open Isn’t Enough to Ensure Access to Abortion
- Filling a Federal Void: Promises and Perils of State Law in Addressing Women's Health Disparities
- Federal, state, and institutional barriers to the expansion of medication and telemedicine abortion services in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Experiences of Reproductive Genetic Counselors with Abortion Regulations in Ohio
- Ohio Abortion Regulations Generate Ethical Dilemmas for Obstetrician-Gynecologists
- Seeking abortion care in Ohio and Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic
- The double-edged sword of abortion regulations: Decreasing training opportunities while increasing knowledge requirements
- Unlimited Discretion: How Unchecked Bureaucratic Discretion Can Threaten Abortion Availability
- Abortion and the Politics of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Mapping Abortion Access: Teaching about Abortion through Geography
- State of Confusion: Ohio’s restrictive abortion landscape and the production of uncertainty in reproductive healthcare
- From the Front Lines: the Need for Stakeholder Coalitions in Preserving Reproductive Autonomy
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