ArticleFeminism & psychology2017
Women's embodied experiences of second trimester medical abortion.
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- Late request for safe abortion and its determinants among reproductive age women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
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- Seeking HELP beyond the pill: Women's perceptions of informed consent for medication abortion: Mixed methods research.PloS one · 2026Article
- Embracing complexity to challenge stigma: a qualitative analysis of representations of abortion in a Polish storytelling initiative.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Article
- Making Sense of a Prenatal Detection of Trisomy 16 Mosaicism in the Placenta: A Qualitative Study of Pregnant Women's Decision Making.Prenatal diagnosis · 2025Article
- Abortion Trajectory, Timing, and Access Study (ATTAS): study protocol.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- Revolution in abortion care? Perspectives of key informants on the importance of abortion method choice in the era of telemedicine.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Article
- Shouldering Death: Moral Tensions, Ambiguity, and the Unintended Ramifications of State-sanctioned Second-trimester Selective Abortion in Denmark.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2022Article
- Toward normalising abortion: findings from a qualitative secondary analysis study.Culture, health & sexuality · 2020Article
- Disgust, stigma, and the politics of abortion.Feminism & psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Abortions in general, and second trimester abortions in particular, are experiences which in many contexts have limited sociocultural visibility. Research on second trimester abortion worldwide has focused on a range of associated factors including risks and acceptability of abortion methods, and characteristics and decision-making of women seeking the procedure. Scholarship to date has not adequately addressed the embodied physicality of second trimester abortion, from the perspective of women's lived experiences, nor how these experiences might inform future framings of abortion. To progress understandings of women's embodied experiences of second trimester abortion, we draw on the accounts of 18 women who had recently sought second trimester abortion in Scotland. We address four aspects of their experiences: later recognition of pregnancy; experiences of a second trimester pregnancy which ended in abortion; the "labour" of second trimester abortion; and the subsequent bodily transition. The paper has two key aims: Firstly, to make visible these experiences, and to consider how they relate to dominant sociocultural narratives of pregnancy; and secondly, to explore the concept of "liminality" as one means for interpreting them. Our findings contribute to informing future research, policy and practice around second trimester abortion. They highlight the need to maintain efforts to reduce silences around abortion and improve equity of access.
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