Protecting abortion access : the experiences of clinic volunteers from Roe to Dobbs / Shara Crookston.

  • Crookston, Shara
Date:
[2024]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"In a post Roe society where abortion is becoming increasingly difficult to access, abortion clinic escorts ensure patient safety and comfort. This qualitative study highlights the challenges and motivations escorts experienced at clinics across the country both pre and post Dobbs. Drawing on interviews with clinic escorts, the author examines how increasing abortion restrictions, lack of police support, massive clinic closures, and upticks in anti-abortion protesting from Christian organizations impact the clinic escorts' work and their perceived ability to keep the sidewalks of their clinics peaceful for patients seeking abortion care."--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2024]

Physical description

vii, 219 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents

Abortion laws, restrictions, and study participants: circus or sidewalk? -- Clinic location and physical plant challenges -- Engagement vs. non-engagement with antis -- Escorting presents personal challenges -- Race and clinic escorting -- Police presence at abortion clinics -- Roe v. Wade: overturning Roe? -- White Catholics v. White Evangelicals: Christian antiabortion protesters -- For antis, abortion is never an option: antiabortion protesters are hypocritical and offer unhelpful solutions -- 'I don't fear for my safety...but I probably should' -- Clinic volunteerism challenges and motivations: escorting as an act of compassion and a way to fight Christian bullying -- June 25th 2022 and beyond.

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    History of Medicine
    UNO.6.U
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781666935240
  • 1666935247