Katrina Kimport
Biographic Data
| ID | 177710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrina Kimport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimport |
| SIGNATURE | KIMPORT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7472-3074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 431 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Pregnancy Termination Outside the Formal Healthcare System Before Dobbs: Consideration and Attempts among Abortion Seekers in Mississippi
Research on abortion outside formal healthcare has focused primarily on self-sourced medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol or misoprostol alone). Less is known about how abortion seekers understand other pregnancy-ending practices, including non–evidence-based methods such as herbs, vitamins, alcohol, or physical stress. We examine how abortion seekers in pre-Dobbs Mississippi learned about, evaluated, attempted, or rejected these met…
The pleasure, joy and positive emotional experiences of abortion accompaniment after 17 weeks’ gestation
Research documents how abortion can be emotionally difficult and stigmatising, but generally has not considered whether and how involvement in abortion may be a source of positive emotions, including pleasure, belonging and even joy. The absence of explorations that start from the possibility of abortion pleasure and joy represents an epistemic foreclosure. Moreover, it highlights how social science literature has tended to emphasise the negative…
Abortion as a sociological case
For over a century, abortion has been politically and socially contested, affecting people's lives through personal experience and/or public discourse. In the United States (US), abortion is sometimes exceptional—treated differently from other procedures, professions, and political issues—and sometimes an exemplar—an accessible example of a commonly occurring social, political, or personal phenomenon. It is, in other words, an excellent sociologi…
Ethics of Care Born in Intersectional Praxis: A Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Model
Abortion in the global South is highly restricted. The social, economic, and health problems engendered by this restriction are often relegated to the discipline of public health and considered a technical problem to be solved through policy change, international pressure, and Northern aid. In recent years, however, local activists around the world have responded to legal restrictions by counseling and supporting abortion seekers online, by phone…
Prenatal Care as a Gateway to Other Health Care: A Qualitative Study
Is third‐trimester abortion exceptional? Two pathways to abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy in the United States
The inherent limits of medical knowledge and the infeasibility of ensuring early pregnancy recognition in all cases illustrate the impossibility of eliminating the need for third-trimester abortion. The similarities between respondents' experiences and that of people seeking abortion at other gestations, particularly regarding the impact of barriers to abortion, point to the value of a social conceptualization of need for abortion that eschews a …
Men's Reproductive Health, Non-Knowledge, and the Opportunity to Conceptualize a Medical Specialty in Reproduction that Isn't Premised on Gender
Reducing the burdens of forced abortion travel: Referrals, financial and emotional support, and opportunities for positive experiences in traveling for third-trimester abortion care
In the United States, travel is a fact of the abortion care provision landscape. This is largely due to the uneven geographical distribution of providers and state-level gestational duration bans that constrain what abortion care is available locally. When abortion travel is compelled by legal restriction, it is forced travel. Research has comprehensively documented that forced abortion travel is burdensome; people who must travel for abortion ex…
What are We Forgetting? Sexuality, Sex, and Embodiment in Abortion Research
Abortion has been alternately legalized and criminalized, tacitly approved of, and stigmatized, in various settings over time. The contours of its treatment are dependent on social and political contexts, including concern over women's sexuality, but it is not clear that existing conceptual frameworks enable expansive examination of the relationship between abortion and sexuality. We conduct a critical interpretive synthesis review of the literat…
No Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy
Emotions over five years after denial of abortion in the United States: Contextualizing the effects of abortion denial on women's health and lives
Pregnant Women's Reasons for and Experiences of Visiting Antiabortion Pregnancy Resource Centers
Pregnancy resource centers play a role in meeting the acute material and social needs of low-income pregnant women. However, the constraints on the resources the centers offer mean that this support cannot be part of a reliable system of care. Advocates and policymakers should take a nuanced approach to regulating these centers and consider the reasons women visit them, especially low-income women
Emotions and decision rightness over five years following an abortion: An examination of decision difficulty and abortion stigma
These results add to the scientific evidence that emotions about an abortion are associated with personal and social context, and are not a product of the abortion procedure itself. Findings challenge the rationale for policies regulating access to abortion that are premised on emotional harm claims
Interpreting the Truth: How People Make Sense of New Information about Abortion
The Health and Social Service Needs of Pregnant Women Who Consider but Do Not Have Abortions
Elementary Students’ Gender Beliefs and Attitudes Following a 12-Week Arts Curriculum Focused on Gender
Middle- and high school-based programs that affirm diverse sexual orientations and gender identities are related to lower rates of bullying and better mental health for LGBTQ students, yet little is known about how to implement affirming programs for elementary-aged children. This study is among the first to examine how an arts-based curriculum for grades K–5 that embraced expansive understandings of gender was related to children’s gender attitu…
Pregnant Women's Experiences of Crisis Pregnancy Centers: When Abortion Stigmatization Succeeds and Fails
There is broad consensus that abortion is stigmatized, but the role of interpersonal interaction in this process is underspecified. I examine interviews with 25 women in the United States who visited crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)-antiabortion organizations that offer one-on-one 'prolife counseling'-for how and when interactions matter for abortion stigmatization. I identify two primary ways CPC counselors stigmatized abortion and describe varia…
Young Women's Perspectives About the Contraceptive Counseling Received During Their Emergency Contraception Visit
We found that young women seeking EC appreciated learning about other contraceptive methods, but do not want to feel pressured to adopt a method in addition to EC. Findings highlight the importance of respecting young women's contraceptive decisions for building and maintaining provider trust and suggest that contraceptive counseling approaches that prioritize specific methods may reduce some young women's trust in providers and use of reproducti…
Consideration of and Reasons for Not Obtaining Abortion Among Women Entering Prenatal Care in Southern Louisiana and Baltimore, Maryland
Most research about experiences considering and seeking abortion comes from women presenting at abortion clinics. This study examines experiences among women presenting at prenatal care. Five hundred eighty-nine women were recruited at their first prenatal visit in Southern Louisiana and Baltimore, Maryland. Participants completed self-administered iPad surveys and in-clinic structured interviews. Participants were asked if they had considered ab…
Talking about male body-based contraceptives: The counseling visit and the feminization of contraception
What Women Want from Their Health Care Providers about Pregnancy Options Counseling: A Qualitative Study
Depicting abortion access on American television, 2005–2015
Despite an increasing number of restrictions on accessing abortion care in the United States, most Americans remain unaware of challenges to obtaining abortion. Theorists of abortion stigma have posited that entertainment media contribute to ongoing lack of knowledge about abortion care. Analyzing all plotlines that aired on American television between 2005 and 2015 in which abortion is considered (n = 89), we examine how access to abortion is po…
More Than a Physical Burden: Women’s Mental and Emotional Work in Preventing Pregnancy
In the United States, responsibility for preventing pregnancy in heterosexual relationships disproportionately falls on women. While the biotechnological landscape of available methods may explain the assignment of the physical burden for contraception to women, this does not mean the concomitant time, attention, and stress that preventing pregnancy requires must also be primarily assumed by women. Building on work identifying health care provide…
Contesting and Differentially Constructing Uncertainty: Negotiations of Contraceptive Use in the Clinical Encounter
Most women of reproductive age have access to highly effective contraception, and all available methods are associated with side effects. Whether a woman will experience side effects is uncertain, however, which can pose challenges for clinicians who discuss the methods with patients. In this study, we analyze 102 contraceptive counseling visits to understand how clinicians discursively construct knowledge in the context of uncertainty. We find t…
After After Tiller: The impact of a documentary film on understandings of third-trimester abortion
Onscreen pseudo-experiences have been shown to influence public perceptions of contested social issues. However, research has not considered whether such experiences have limits in their influence and/or vary in their impact. Using the case of third-trimester abortion, an issue subject to high amounts of misinformation, low public support and low occurrence in the general population, we investigate how the pseudo-experience of viewing After Tille…
Culture and Mobilization: Tactical Repertoires, Same-Sex Weddings, and the Impact on Gay Activism
Social movement scholars have long been skeptical of culture's impact on political change, perhaps for good reason, since little empirical research explicitly addresses this question. This article fills the void by examining the dynamics and the impact of the month-long 2004 same-sex wedding protest in San Francisco. We integrate insights of contentious politics approaches with social constructionist conceptions and identify three core features o…
Changing the World One Webpage at a Time: Conceptualizing and Explaining Internet Activism
Researchers studying Internet activism have disagreed over the extent to which Internet usage alters the processes driving collective action, and therefore also over the utility of existing social movement theory. We argue that some of this disagreement owes to scholars studying different kinds of Internet activism. Therefore, we introduce a typology of Internet activism, which shows that markedly different findings are associated with different …
More Than a Physical Burden: Women’s Mental and Emotional Work in Preventing Pregnancy
In the United States, responsibility for preventing pregnancy in heterosexual relationships disproportionately falls on women. While the biotechnological landscape of available methods may explain the assignment of the physical burden for contraception to women, this does not mean the concomitant time, attention, and stress that preventing pregnancy requires must also be primarily assumed by women. Building on work identifying health care provide…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Emotions and decision rightness over five years following an abortion: An examination of decision difficulty and abortion stigma
These results add to the scientific evidence that emotions about an abortion are associated with personal and social context, and are not a product of the abortion procedure itself. Findings challenge the rationale for policies regulating access to abortion that are premised on emotional harm claims
Contesting and Differentially Constructing Uncertainty: Negotiations of Contraceptive Use in the Clinical Encounter
Most women of reproductive age have access to highly effective contraception, and all available methods are associated with side effects. Whether a woman will experience side effects is uncertain, however, which can pose challenges for clinicians who discuss the methods with patients. In this study, we analyze 102 contraceptive counseling visits to understand how clinicians discursively construct knowledge in the context of uncertainty. We find t…
Social Sources of Women's Emotional Difficulty After Abortion: Lessons from Women's Abortion Narratives
Supporting a woman's abortion decision-making process, addressing the division of labor between women and men regarding pregnancy prevention, abortion and childrearing, and offering nonjudgmental support may guide interventions designed to reduce emotional distress after abortion
Movement Societies and Digital Protest: Fan Activism and Other Nonpolitical Protest Online
Sociologists of culture studying 'fan activism' have noted an apparent increase in its volume, which they attribute to the growing use of the Internet to register fan claims. However, scholars have yet to measure the extent of contemporary fan activism, account for why fan discontent has been expressed through protest, or precisely specify the role of the Internet in this expansion. We argue that these questions can be addressed by drawing on a g…
The Stratified Legitimacy of Abortions
Roe v. Wade was heralded as an end to unequal access to abortion care in the United States. However, today, despite being common and safe, abortion is performed only selectively in hospitals and private practices. Drawing on 61 interviews with obstetrician-gynecologists in these settings, we examine how they determine which abortions to perform. We find that they distinguish between more and less legitimate abortions, producing a narrative of str…
A Qualitative Analysis of Approaches To Contraceptive Counseling
Most visits did not include interactive engagement between the patient and the provider. Contraceptive counseling interventions should encourage providers to responsively engage with patients of all ages to better meet their contraceptive needs
Remaking the White Wedding? Same-Sex Wedding Photographs' Challenge to Symbolic Heteronormativity
Recent scholarship has identified the modern wedding as a principal site for the construction of heteronormativity. This article examines whether and how the participation of same-sex couples in the wedding ritual can challenge this construction. Photographs from the 2004 San Francisco same-sex weddings were quantitatively content-coded for subjects' gender presentation and for the extent to which the couple embodied the heteronormative wedding s…
Talking about male body-based contraceptives: The counseling visit and the feminization of contraception
Who Seeks Abortions at or After 20 Weeks
Bans on abortion after 20 weeks will disproportionately affect young women and women with limited financial resources
Depicting abortion access on American television, 2005–2015
Despite an increasing number of restrictions on accessing abortion care in the United States, most Americans remain unaware of challenges to obtaining abortion. Theorists of abortion stigma have posited that entertainment media contribute to ongoing lack of knowledge about abortion care. Analyzing all plotlines that aired on American television between 2005 and 2015 in which abortion is considered (n = 89), we examine how access to abortion is po…
(Mis)Understanding Abortion Regret
The debate about abortion regret rests on competing assumptions about women's attachment to pregnancy. Antiabortion claimants argue women always attach to pregnancy (inevitably regretting abortion), while abortion rights supporters counter that women do not attach to pregnancies they choose to terminate (feeling relief instead). Neither assumption explains women's experience; research shows that attachment is discursively produced. Using intervie…
Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age
An investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest. Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of “Internet activism,” but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity is different in kind from more traditional forms of activism. Does the global reach and blazing speed of the Internet affect the essential character …
Reducing the burdens of forced abortion travel: Referrals, financial and emotional support, and opportunities for positive experiences in traveling for third-trimester abortion care
In the United States, travel is a fact of the abortion care provision landscape. This is largely due to the uneven geographical distribution of providers and state-level gestational duration bans that constrain what abortion care is available locally. When abortion travel is compelled by legal restriction, it is forced travel. Research has comprehensively documented that forced abortion travel is burdensome; people who must travel for abortion ex…
Constructing the meaning of ultrasound viewing in abortion care
As ultrasound scanning becomes increasingly routine in abortion care, scholars and activists have forwarded claims about how viewing the ultrasound image will affect pregnant women seeking abortion, speculating that it will dissuade them from abortion. These accounts, however, fail to appreciate how viewing is a social process. Little research has investigated how ultrasound workers navigate viewing in abortion care. We draw on interviews with tw…
Women's Emotions One Week After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion in the United States
Difficulty with the abortion decision and the degree to which the pregnancy had been planned were most important for women's postabortion emotional state. Experiencing negative emotions postabortion is different from believing that abortion was not the right decision
Pregnant Women's Reasons for and Experiences of Visiting Antiabortion Pregnancy Resource Centers
Pregnancy resource centers play a role in meeting the acute material and social needs of low-income pregnant women. However, the constraints on the resources the centers offer mean that this support cannot be part of a reliable system of care. Advocates and policymakers should take a nuanced approach to regulating these centers and consider the reasons women visit them, especially low-income women
Pregnant Women's Experiences of Crisis Pregnancy Centers: When Abortion Stigmatization Succeeds and Fails
There is broad consensus that abortion is stigmatized, but the role of interpersonal interaction in this process is underspecified. I examine interviews with 25 women in the United States who visited crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)-antiabortion organizations that offer one-on-one 'prolife counseling'-for how and when interactions matter for abortion stigmatization. I identify two primary ways CPC counselors stigmatized abortion and describe varia…
Ethics of Care Born in Intersectional Praxis: A Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Model
Abortion in the global South is highly restricted. The social, economic, and health problems engendered by this restriction are often relegated to the discipline of public health and considered a technical problem to be solved through policy change, international pressure, and Northern aid. In recent years, however, local activists around the world have responded to legal restrictions by counseling and supporting abortion seekers online, by phone…
What are We Forgetting? Sexuality, Sex, and Embodiment in Abortion Research
Abortion has been alternately legalized and criminalized, tacitly approved of, and stigmatized, in various settings over time. The contours of its treatment are dependent on social and political contexts, including concern over women's sexuality, but it is not clear that existing conceptual frameworks enable expansive examination of the relationship between abortion and sexuality. We conduct a critical interpretive synthesis review of the literat…
Abortion as a sociological case
For over a century, abortion has been politically and socially contested, affecting people's lives through personal experience and/or public discourse. In the United States (US), abortion is sometimes exceptional—treated differently from other procedures, professions, and political issues—and sometimes an exemplar—an accessible example of a commonly occurring social, political, or personal phenomenon. It is, in other words, an excellent sociologi…
Beyond Political Claims: Women's Interest In and Emotional Response to Viewing Their Ultrasound Image in Abortion Care
Ultrasound viewing appears not to have a singular emotional effect. The presence of state regulation and facility policies matters for women's interest in and responses to viewing
The Targets of Online Protest: State and private targets of four online protest tactics
A major debate has erupted in recent work on social movements about the role of the state in protest, with some advocating alternative approaches to the study of social movements, such as a focus on institutional authorities. Using data on four types of online protest (petitions, boycotts, and letter-writing and email campaigns), acquired using an innovative new methodology that produces a generalizable sample of online protest actions, this pape…
Culture and Mobilization: Tactical Repertoires, Same-Sex Weddings, and the Impact on Gay Activism
Social movement scholars have long been skeptical of culture's impact on political change, perhaps for good reason, since little empirical research explicitly addresses this question. This article fills the void by examining the dynamics and the impact of the month-long 2004 same-sex wedding protest in San Francisco. We integrate insights of contentious politics approaches with social constructionist conceptions and identify three core features o…
Movement Societies and Digital Protest: Fan Activism and Other Nonpolitical Protest Online
Sociologists of culture studying 'fan activism' have noted an apparent increase in its volume, which they attribute to the growing use of the Internet to register fan claims. However, scholars have yet to measure the extent of contemporary fan activism, account for why fan discontent has been expressed through protest, or precisely specify the role of the Internet in this expansion. We argue that these questions can be addressed by drawing on a g…
Changing the World One Webpage at a Time: Conceptualizing and Explaining Internet Activism
Researchers studying Internet activism have disagreed over the extent to which Internet usage alters the processes driving collective action, and therefore also over the utility of existing social movement theory. We argue that some of this disagreement owes to scholars studying different kinds of Internet activism. Therefore, we introduce a typology of Internet activism, which shows that markedly different findings are associated with different …
Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age
An investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest. Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of “Internet activism,” but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity is different in kind from more traditional forms of activism. Does the global reach and blazing speed of the Internet affect the essential character …
Social Sources of Women's Emotional Difficulty After Abortion: Lessons from Women's Abortion Narratives
Supporting a woman's abortion decision-making process, addressing the division of labor between women and men regarding pregnancy prevention, abortion and childrearing, and offering nonjudgmental support may guide interventions designed to reduce emotional distress after abortion
Women's Perspectives on Ultrasound Viewing in the Abortion Care Context
Remaking the White Wedding? Same-Sex Wedding Photographs' Challenge to Symbolic Heteronormativity
Recent scholarship has identified the modern wedding as a principal site for the construction of heteronormativity. This article examines whether and how the participation of same-sex couples in the wedding ritual can challenge this construction. Photographs from the 2004 San Francisco same-sex weddings were quantitatively content-coded for subjects' gender presentation and for the extent to which the couple embodied the heteronormative wedding s…
(Mis)Understanding Abortion Regret
The debate about abortion regret rests on competing assumptions about women's attachment to pregnancy. Antiabortion claimants argue women always attach to pregnancy (inevitably regretting abortion), while abortion rights supporters counter that women do not attach to pregnancies they choose to terminate (feeling relief instead). Neither assumption explains women's experience; research shows that attachment is discursively produced. Using intervie…
Women's Emotions One Week After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion in the United States
Difficulty with the abortion decision and the degree to which the pregnancy had been planned were most important for women's postabortion emotional state. Experiencing negative emotions postabortion is different from believing that abortion was not the right decision
Who Seeks Abortions at or After 20 Weeks
Bans on abortion after 20 weeks will disproportionately affect young women and women with limited financial resources
Decentering the Individual and Centering Community: Using a Reproductive Justice Methodology to Examine the Uses of Reprogenetics
Sujatha Jesudason, Katrina Kimport, Decentering the Individual and Centering Community: Using a Reproductive Justice Methodology to Examine the Uses of Reprogenetics, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, Special Issue: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice (2013), pp. 213-225
Hitting middle age never felt so good: Introduction to the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technologies section 2013 special issue
Out-of-Pocket Costs and Insurance Coverage for Abortion in the United States
A Qualitative Analysis of Approaches To Contraceptive Counseling
Most visits did not include interactive engagement between the patient and the provider. Contraceptive counseling interventions should encourage providers to responsively engage with patients of all ages to better meet their contraceptive needs
Beyond Political Claims: Women's Interest In and Emotional Response to Viewing Their Ultrasound Image in Abortion Care
Ultrasound viewing appears not to have a singular emotional effect. The presence of state regulation and facility policies matters for women's interest in and responses to viewing
License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples
Constructing the meaning of ultrasound viewing in abortion care
As ultrasound scanning becomes increasingly routine in abortion care, scholars and activists have forwarded claims about how viewing the ultrasound image will affect pregnant women seeking abortion, speculating that it will dissuade them from abortion. These accounts, however, fail to appreciate how viewing is a social process. Little research has investigated how ultrasound workers navigate viewing in abortion care. We draw on interviews with tw…
After After Tiller: The impact of a documentary film on understandings of third-trimester abortion
Onscreen pseudo-experiences have been shown to influence public perceptions of contested social issues. However, research has not considered whether such experiences have limits in their influence and/or vary in their impact. Using the case of third-trimester abortion, an issue subject to high amounts of misinformation, low public support and low occurrence in the general population, we investigate how the pseudo-experience of viewing After Tille…
Doctors and Witches, Conscience and Violence: Abortion Provision on American Television
The differing ways in which legal and illegal abortion are portrayed reveal potential consequences regarding real-world abortion provision, and suggest that representations situated in medical contexts may work to legitimate and destigmatize such provision
Divergent Successes: What the Abortion Rights Movement Can Learn from Marriage Equality's Success
Modern Families
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
The Stratified Legitimacy of Abortions
Roe v. Wade was heralded as an end to unequal access to abortion care in the United States. However, today, despite being common and safe, abortion is performed only selectively in hospitals and private practices. Drawing on 61 interviews with obstetrician-gynecologists in these settings, we examine how they determine which abortions to perform. We find that they distinguish between more and less legitimate abortions, producing a narrative of str…
What Women Want from Their Health Care Providers about Pregnancy Options Counseling: A Qualitative Study
Reproductive Health and Contraception (34 works) · Abortion (29 works) · Pregnancy (27 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Political science (26 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (20 works)