Taehyun Kim is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland Department of Health Policy and Management. Her broad research interest lies in abortion and contraceptive policy and health equity. More specifically, she aims to produce research evidence for policymaking that alleviates social and policy barriers to access to abortion and contraception. This interest was ...Read more >

Shay Gingras is currently a student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health pursuing her Masters in Public Health in Maternal and Child Health with minors in Sexual Health and Health Equity. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies and Sociology from Macalester College. She is currently a Senior Research Coordinator with ...Read more >

Megan (she/her) received her MD and MPH from George Washington University and is a current OB/GYN resident at The Oregon Health and Science University. Her interests include reproductive health policy, adolescent sexual health, and healthcare disparities. Prior to starting medical school, she worked internationally on a variety of maternal and reproductive healthcare access projects. While ...Read more >

Across the globe, intersecting social, economic, political, legal, and geographic factors work to restrict the right to abortion, forcing women and pregnant people to travel across state and country lines to access needed healthcare services. For decades, such forced abortion travel has occurred along the U.S.-Mexico border, with recent legislative changes targeting abortion access in ...Read more >

Georgia, in addition to having one of the highest maternal morbidity and mortality rates in the country, heavily regulates abortion. Current data support an association between restricted access to safe and legal abortion and higher rates of maternal morbidity and mortality, with already vulnerable populations experiencing a disparate burden. Researchers have speculated that people with ...Read more >

The Kentucky Health Justice Network (KHJN) and local researchers will explore the experiences and pregnancy outcomes of Kentucky abortion fund clients who experience significant economic barriers to abortion. Kentucky is among the most abortion-hostile states, with many existing restrictions on care and just two abortion facilities; Kentucky also has multiple abortion bans, any of which ...Read more >

The proposed project will track abortion facility operations and appointment availability in the first 12 months following the expected reversal of Roe v. Wade. I will produce and update an online interactive web application—”The Abortion Atlas”—that allows users to explore the shifting landscape of abortion access as measured by travel distances, appointment availability, facilities per ...Read more >

Though it is clear from historical precedent and contemporary practice that individuals will travel for abortion care if state-level abortion restrictions increase, it is unknown what factors will drive choice of state for travel, how people will experience interstate travel, and whether abortion accessibility among travelers will vary according to patient age, gender identity, socioeconomic ...Read more >

With impending SCOTUS decisions that may further limit access, it is crucial to understand how people most vulnerable to a changing legal abortion landscape are impacted. Despite the fragile legislative and judicial future for abortion in the US, the deregulation of medication abortion by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and tele-abortion access has great ...Read more >

Provision of abortion care varies widely among different states due to fragmented federal and state policies. As services become restricted in some states, patients are forced to seek care in other states where abortion access is available. We request the Society of Family Planning research funding to document the impact of Texas’s S.B.8 on abortion ...Read more >