The Texas Tubman Travel Project in collaboration with the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, aims to understand how social location influences the experiences of those seeking travel abortion care outside their state of residence, with a focus on challenges faced by people of color. The Texas Tubman Travel Project, established in the fall ...Read more >

Since the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) ruling, twenty-one states have introduced abortion bans or policy restrictions. In response, nonprofit groups throughout the nation have ramped up organizational capacity and financial support to provide abortion funds to pregnant people living in states with restrictive abortion policies to help facilitate travel to clinics in ...Read more >

Minors in restricted access states face unique barriers navigating to out-of-state abortion care owing to their lack of familiarity with healthcare systems and limited financial resources; parental involvement laws may further complicate the burdensome process of out-of-state travel. However, there are limited data on how minors identify and leverage the resources they need to obtain ...Read more >

Background: Since the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health decision, more people travel across state lines to access facility-based abortion care. However, interstate travel can come at an emotional and financial cost, disproportionately affecting the most structurally oppressed and marginalized individuals. As part of our 2019 pre-Dobbs Burden Study, we documented how psychosocial burden accessing facility-based ...Read more >

Following the transformative U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (June 2022), the Louisiana Abortion Fund (LAAF) stands as the sole abortion fund in a state where abortion is now illegal. Formerly the New Orleans Abortion Fund, LAAF is a pioneering, Black-led community fund in the Deep South, committed to dismantling ...Read more >

Dr. Nandi is originally from the Southeast and grew up in Louisiana and North Carolina. She graduated from Yale University with degrees in Biochemistry and Economics and worked in grants management at the National Institutes of Health prior to medical school. She received her medical degree and her Master’s in Public Health in Epidemiology from ...Read more >

Few effective interventions exist to ease pain during IUD insertion, despite how frequently this procedure is performed in the US. Studies evaluating pharmacologic interventions demonstrate mixed results and there is limited investigation into non-pharmacologic pain control strategies. We propose a randomized controlled trial to assess the utility of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) to reduce ...Read more >

Dr. Tamara Kurek is a fellow in Complex Family Planning at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC).  Dr. Kurek’s personal and professional experiences have led to an interest in reproductive rights as they relate to permanent contraception, and subsequently to this project proposal. The US has a long history of forced sterilization, and the Medicaid ...Read more >

Dr. Kendra Harris is the current first year CFP fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She completed her OBGYN residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and earned her medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. As a Black woman, Dr. Harris has experienced first-hand the dearth of Black abortion providers ...Read more >

Approximately 10% of all terminations, whether elective or for fetal/maternal indications, take place in the second trimester of pregnancy. In situations after 16 weeks gestational age, post-procedure maternal lactation may occur, which is not only emotionally distressing to patients grieving a pregnancy loss, but also physically uncomfortable with painful breast engorgement as milk is produced. ...Read more >