This research project will examine the impact of the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on Indigenous people who receive abortion-related financial assistance from the nonprofit organization Indigenous Women Rising (IWR). IWR’s mission is to honor and promote Indigenous people’s right to equitable and culturally safe reproductive health options. Its programs include an abortion fund that ...Read more >

Patients seeking abortion services are having to drive farther than ever before since the landmark US Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Consequently, online abortion services staffed by US-based clinicians are burgeoning. This study leverages Access, Delivered’s existing patient database of Aid Access patients served by US-based clinicians in permissible states and ...Read more >

Little data exist describing abortion care navigation patterns in the post-Dobbs legal landscape. While the Abortion Access Dashboard predicts where individuals may seek abortion care by providing average travel distance to the nearest abortion facility with appointment availability, additional factors could influence such decisions and increase travel distances. Abortion funds play a vital role in ...Read more >

The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization upended the abortion ecosystem in the US by allowing states to restrict, or entirely ban, abortion care. In this study, we will examine the impacts that this change had on interstate travel for abortion. We will leverage data from #WeCount on abortion utilization ...Read more >

Each day in the US, hundreds of birthing people suffer a severe pregnancy-related complication known as Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM). Recently, the rate of SMM has continued to increase and disparities persist. Black women insured by Medicaid are nearly twice as likely to experience SMM compared to White women. In a post-Dobbs era, many scholars ...Read more >

Following the Dobbs decision people in abortion-restrictive states who require in-person abortion care are now forced to travel to less-restrictive states. We know that traveling for out-of-state abortion increases costs, requires arrangements (time off work, childcare, travel), and reduces privacy reinforcing existing socioeconomic inequalities. Residential segregation influences structural racism in different neighborhoods. Structural racism is ...Read more >