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.
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.
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.
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.