ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2026
"It Was So Easy in a Situation That's So Hard": Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion.
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- Abortion Policy as Structural Sexism: An Analysis of Shame-Inducing Counseling Laws and Birth Outcomes.Journal of health and social behavior · 2026Article
- "The alternative is they're not getting care at all": a qualitative interview study of opioid use disorder treatment providers' perspectives on quality and appropriateness of telehealth for buprenorphine access.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- "I don't want to be in the energy of that situation": Embodied experiences with telehealth medication abortion.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2026Article
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Abstract
For decades, sociological research has examined the role of stigma in contributing to health disparities, yet such research seldom grapples with the interplay between individuals and structures. There is a particular paucity of research on abortion that concurrently examines individual experiences with stigma and structural barriers. In this article, we use telehealth abortion as a case, which now accounts for one in five abortions in the United States. We conducted 30 interviews and approach the data using a structural stigma framework in tandem with conceptualizations of felt, internalized, and enacted stigma. Findings advance a sociological theory of structural abortion stigma: a combination of structural barriers, internalized beliefs, and interpersonal shame. Telehealth reduces structural barriers to abortion and mitigates internal and interpersonal experiences of stigma. The latter is achieved by the ability to avoid the traditional abortion clinic, which many interviewees view as the site where stigma is produced and experienced.
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