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ArticleSexual and reproductive health matters2025

Constructing criminality: a thematic analysis of national news media reporting on self-managed abortion criminalisation in the United States.

Hayley V McMahon, Naya Pearce, Alexis J Smith, India C Stevenson, Grace E Howard, Sara K Redd, Whitney S Rice

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Article in Sexual and reproductive health matters, 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Hayley V McMahonDoctoral Candidate, Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; Doctoral Fellow, The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4919-8612
Naya PearceGraduate Student, Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; Graduate Research Assistant, The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Alexis J SmithDoctoral Candidate, Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.
India C StevensonGraduate Student, Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; Graduate Research Assistant, The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Grace E HowardAssociate Professor, Department of Justice Studies, San José State University, San José, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3377-8703
Sara K ReddAssistant Professor, Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; Director of Research Translation, The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2422-8937
Whitney S RiceAssistant Professor, Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; Director, The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1749-023X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Self-managed abortion (SMA) is prevalent in the United States (US) and has become increasingly common since the 2022 Supreme Court ruling in

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Abortion, InducedCriminalsMass MediaFemaleHumansPregnancyUnited Statesabortion stigmacriminalisationnews mediapolicing pregnancyreproductive justiceself-managed abortion

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PMID41090543
PMCPMC12604113

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