Legal geographies of medication abortion in the USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sydney Calkin (0000-0003-3791-8029, School of Geography Queen Mary University of London London UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 378-392 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.12506 |
| OpenAlex | W3207651153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 46 |
Medication abortion with pills (mifepristone and misoprostol) challenges the spatiality of abortion provision because it creates the possibility for safe, self‐managed abortion outside of clinical infrastructure. This possibility has been contested by pro‐ and anti‐abortion actors for as long as medication abortion has been in existence. In this paper, I offer a legal geography account of medication abortion technology that examines how medication abortion has been regulated in the United States. Conceptually, the paper uses a legal geography methodology to probe the social spatialities that abortion laws construct. Empirically, the paper analyses trends in legislation to restrict medication abortion and two significant court challenges where abortion providers brought suit against medication abortion restrictions. Drawing on legislation and litigation over mifepristone, I demonstrate that restrictions on it function by anchoring mifepristone inside the clinical spaces and regulatory frameworks established for surgical abortion. In this way, mifepristone regulations circumscribe its availability in order to prevent the creation of alternative models for abortion provision that could re‐arrange its geography and expand abortion access
Abortion · Abortion law · Business · Construct (python library · Environmental health · Family planning · Legislation · Mifepristone · Misoprostol · Pill · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies
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The politics of morality
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The crime of choice
A geopolitics of migrant women, mobility and abortion access in the Republic of Ireland
Critical Legal Studies and the Politics of Space
Feminist geolegality
Legal geography II
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Interest Group Influence in Policy Diffusion Networks
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Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities
Misoprostol
The Many Faces of RU486
Abortion Im/mobility
Normalizing the exceptional
Providers, Pills and Power
Feminist legal geographies
To recognize the tyranny of distance
Understandings of self-managed abortion as health inequity, harm reduction and social change
Uneasy allies
Realizing Abortion Rights at the Margins of Legality in Mexico
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |