CONVERGE is horrified and heartbroken to hear of the death of Tierra Walker, a 37 year old from San Antonio, Texas who died after being denied lifesaving abortion care. Tierra’s story is difficult for anyone to read, but we know it is especially painful for anyone who has experienced the same injustices Tierra and her family faced during her pregnancy.
Laura Kirkpatrick, Traci Kazmerski, and their team members conducted a series of interviews with women who chose abortion during adolescence. This team found that:
1) Participants perceived options counseling before abortion as important and necessary, but did not always feel they personally needed it.
2) Participants reported that nurses, physicians, and other staff sometimes had poor bedside manner, which was not aligned with their perceived need for gentleness due to their adolescence.
What happens to Veterans who become pregnant when using contraception?
In a study published by the Journal of Women's Health, CONVERGE's Drs. Chang, Callegari, Borrero, and Quinn found that these pregnancies are more likely to end in an abortion than live birth. Given widespread reproductive health restrictions across the US, ensuring Veterans' access to comprehensive health care, including abortion, is critical to supporting reproductive autonomy and whole health.
Join CONVERGE faculty members, Marian Jarlenski, PhD, MPH, Suji Uhm, MD, MPH, Sonya Borrero, MD, MS, Mehret Birru Talabi, PhD, MD, and Greer Donley, JD, at Medicine Grand Rounds for Dobbs, Abortion Bans, and Repercussions on the Practice of Medicine.
In anticipation of extraterritorial application of antiabortion laws, many states enacted laws that attempt to shield abortion providers, helpers, and patients from civil, professional, or criminal liability associated with legal abortion care. Professor Greer Donley and her colleagues analyzed and compared the statutory schemes of the seven early adopting shield states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.
Join A Feminist Theology of Abortion on Nov. 3rd for a conversation with Dr. Myrna Perez Shelton for a new ethical foundation on abortion politics.
Join GSWS for a panel discussion on What US Feminists Can Learn from Irish Abortion Activists on Oct. 20 at 3:30pm.
Register here: https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/what_us_feminists_can_learn_from_irish_abortion_activists
Join GSWS for a panel discussion on What US Feminists can learn from Latin American Abortion Activists. This panel will be chaired by Lara Putnam (History), with Paula Orozco-Espinel, Iris Medellin, and Emily Culver.
Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi, Greer Donley, and Catherine Wright collaborated on a letter to the editor of Arthritis & Rheumatology about their recent cross-sectional survey of rheumatologists which describes the impacts of U.S. abortion policy on rheumatology clinical practice.
View the full letter to the editor here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37706661/
CONVERGE faculty member Dr. Mosley, and affiliate faculty member at Emory-RISE, contributed to this study on Georgia’s early abortion ban and looking at the multiyear consequences for abortion access.
Read more about their study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36877521/
