This brief illustrative article in the Medical Students for Choice’s Update by Larue and Shaw describes research in Canada investigating barriers to abortion access rural women face and their treatment by healthcare professionals as they seeks care, capturing the way in which judgmental or misinformed staff act as gatekeepers.

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This article by Rosenblatt et al published in The American Journal of Public Health reviews a survey of rural Idaho physicians’ opposition to providing abortion services, noting personal moral or religious objections and loval community opposition.

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This article by Dobie et al published in Family Planning Perspectives notes that women in this region are traveling farther and often to obtain abortion services and are having those procedures at a later gestational age.

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This 2009 report from the Abortion Access Project includes analysis of the results of a multi-state reproductive health survey of rural clinicians. These results give insights into how rural clinicians perceive patient needs around abortion care and how such services fit within the services they offer.