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ArticleAJOG global reports2025

"I'm supposed to be a helper": Spiritual distress of abortion providers after the

Leah M Bode, Komal A Kumar, Josie C McQuillan, Nicole P Scott, Caitlin Bernard

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Article in AJOG global reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Leah M BodeIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Komal A KumarIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Josie C McQuillanIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Nicole P ScottIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Caitlin BernardIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.

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Abstract

Background: The Objective: We sought to describe the spectrum of spirituality of abortion providers and understand whether and how the Study Design: For this qualitative study, we conducted video interviews with 26 abortion providers from 17 states between November 2022 and February 2023. States were classified according to the Guttmacher Institute classifications from most restrictive to very protective as of December 2022. Interviews included questions such as, Results: Participants' states of practice were well-distributed across the abortion restrictive-protective spectrum. The majority of participants were spiritual, while less than half identified as part of an organized religion. Many participants felt a spiritual Conclusions: The

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conscientious provisionDobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organizationmoral distressreligious freedomspiritual distress

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PMID40162006
PMCPMC11952793

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