ArticleGlobal public health2018
Accounting for abortion: Accomplishing transnational reproductive governance through post-abortion care in Senegal.
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- "It Was So Easy in a Situation That's So Hard": Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion.Journal of health and social behavior · 2026Article
- Andrea Prudente case: a case study on social mobilisation, reproductive governance, and the politics of abortion reform in Malta.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Article
- Measuring depression in Wolof-speaking communities using the CESD-10 in rural Senegal.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- From political priority to service delivery: complexities to real-life priority of abortion services in Ethiopia.Health policy and planning · 2024Article
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- Information flow as reproductive governance. Patient journey analysis of information barriers and facilitators to abortion care in the republic of Ireland.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- The macroeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the costs and outcomes.PloS one · 2021Article
- A Stalled Revolution? Misoprostol and the Pharmaceuticalization of Reproductive Health in Francophone Africa.Frontiers in sociology · 2021Article
- What post-abortion care indicators don't measure: Global abortion politics and obstetric practice in Senegal.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- Investigating the linkages between pregnancy outcomes and climate in sub-Saharan Africa.Population and environment · 2020Article
- Infanticide in Senegal: results from an exploratory mixed-methods study.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2019Article
- Critical insights on the demographic concept of "birth spacing": locatingSexual and reproductive health matters · 2019Article
- Metrics of Survival: Post-Abortion Care and Reproductive Rights in Senegal.Medical anthropologyArticle
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Abstract
Reproductive governance operates through calculating demographic statistics that offer selective truths about reproductive practices, bodies, and subjectivities. Post-abortion care, a global reproductive health intervention, represents a transnational reproductive regime that establishes motherhood as women's primary legitimate reproductive status. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Senegal between 2010 and 2011, I illustrate how post-abortion care accomplishes reproductive governance in a context where abortion is prohibited altogether and the US is the primary bilateral donor of population aid. Reproductive governance unfolds in hospital gynecological wards and the national health information system through the mobilization and interpretation of post-abortion care data. Although health workers search women's bodies and behavior for signs of illegal abortion, they minimize police intervention in the hospital by classifying most post-abortion care cases as miscarriage. Health authorities deploy this account of post-abortion care to align the intervention with national and global maternal health policies that valorize motherhood. Although post-abortion care offers life-saving care to women with complications of illegal abortion, it institutionalizes abortion stigma by scrutinizing women's bodies and masking induced abortion within and beyond the hospital. Post-abortion care reinforces reproductive inequities by withholding safe, affordable obstetric care from women until after they have resorted to unsafe abortion.
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