New Research on Healthcare Burdens in Post Roe v Wade World
New research co-authored by聽, a distinguished professor of architecture at Syracuse University, was just published by the聽Journal of Women, Politics and Policy.
Entitled, “,” the article is based on interviews with abortion care professionals conducted between February 2022 and March 2023, a time period after the first arguments before the Supreme Court for Dobbs v. Jackson and the time after the court issued their opinion overturning abortion as a federally protected right.
Along with Prof. Brown, the authors include聽, Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas, and聽, a professor emerita of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UMass Boston.
The authors make a case that the Supreme Court majority in the Dobbs case refused to acknowledge the impact this ruling would have or understand that banning abortion is 鈥渋nvidiously discriminatory animus against women.鈥
The article is based on 22 semi-structured interviews, lasting 60 to 90 minutes with abortion care professionals. It contributes to existing scholarship on the Dobbs decisions through a focused legal critique of the Court’s failure to cognize the connection between opposition to abortion and gender animus. The authors define gender animus as the 鈥渃urtailment of women鈥檚 rights and their status as free and equal citizens.鈥
From the paper: 鈥淭he interviews we conducted with abortion providers buttress the claim of the dissenting Justices in聽Dobbs聽that the Court鈥檚 conservative supermajority knows or cares little 鈥榓bout women鈥檚 lives or about the suffering its decision will cause.鈥 In contrast to the distance these anti-abortion Justices are 鈥榝rom the reality American women actually live,鈥 the participants in our study are deeply enmeshed in this reality based on their professional identities and associated intimate knowledge of the first-hand challenges faced by those seeking abortion care in this ever increasingly hostile environment,鈥 write the authors.
For more information, please read the article at聽聽and please contact Ellen James Mbuqe, executive director of media relations at Syracuse University, to contact the authors.
