ArticleThe American journal of bioethics : AJOB2022
The Ethics of Access: Reframing the Need for Abortion Care as a Health Disparity.
Article in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mifepristone Access Through Community Pharmacies When Regulated as a Routine Prescription Medication.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Advancing knowledge and public health: a scientific exploration of abortion safety.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2025Article
- The Insult of Involuntary Adoption and the Moral Seriousness of MOTHERHOOD.The Hastings Center report · 2025Article
- A matter of choice: a cross-sectional study examining the impact of the overturning ofMedEdPublish (2016) · 2024Article
- Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2022Article
- Between legal rights and lived realities: Roma Women's experiences of abortion care analyzed using the WHO conceptual framework for abortion care.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
The majority of U.S. abortion patients are poor women, and Black and Hispanic women. Therefore, this article encourages bioethicists and equity advocates to consider whether the need for abortion care should be considered a health disparity, and if yes, whether framing it this way would increase the ability of poor women and women of color to get the medical care they need. In order to engage with these critical questions, bioethicists must avoid abortion exceptionalism and respect patients as moral agents. Centering the conscience of pregnant people shifts our analysis away from the ethics of the act of abortion, and toward the ethics of access to abortion care. Because the Supreme Court is on the brink of shifting the question of abortion's legality to state legislatures, this is the moment for all bioethicists to clarify and strengthen their thinking, writing, and teaching in abortion ethics.
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