The Social Stigma Surrounding Abortion

Women who have abortions: An international team of researchers is investigating whether under a theory of the stigma of abortion, states have been identified in one category. As a result, they have started to explore new directions in research and social stigma surrounding abortion.

They invited paper, "the stigma of abortion: reconceptualization of the components, causes and consequences", represented by teams that are published in the current women's health. "Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Cincinnati School of Social Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, part, Guttmacher Institute in New York, Goldsmiths College, UCLA women's center for the University of London Science.

"About abortion stigma that focuses on women who had experienced and their abortion, but little research there. We are seeking a disgrace in a broader context," team member Daniel Bessette studies, sociology, assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati said.

The authors of abortion, "the female ideal," citing the stigma of previous studies on abortion have been violated, that the stigma of abortion because of legal restrictions that are considered "dirty or, unhealthy. "

Bessette, the health care provider to perform such an abortion of the project researchers, supporting women's abortion, certain groups might be affected by the stigma of male partners of women say they can explore women's self-stigma of abortion after suffering a miscarriage after an abortion and the public that the experience of pregnant women had.

"This is a new area of ​​research about the social issues surrounding abortion," Search the United States, Zambia, including Nigeria, adding that Mr. Bessette was carried out in national and international circles, Tanzania, Mexico, Brazil, the European countries.

The author points out in writing "to understand the stigma of abortion, but stigma, have a direct impact to improve access to health care and better things to influence them to reduce We know the strategy. "

Research funding for the paper was supported by abortion and reproductive health services and social Postdoctoral Charlotte Ellerston Stock Exchange. The research project, Alison Norris, MD, Family Medicine of Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, Daniel Bessette, University of Cincinnati Department of Sociology, has led to Julia Steinberg R., psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, Megan L. Kavanaugh, Institute Guttmacher, Shirubiade Zordo, Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, David Becker and the research center of the UCLA women.