Katie Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3862463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3609-4048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abortion Access Persists, but So Do the Threats
"Shield laws" declare that, for purposes of reproductive health care, the law of the jurisdiction in which the clinician practices governs when state laws conflict. In 2024, approximately 100,000 pregnant people living in states that criminalize abortion provision received pills for a medication abortion from a clinician living in one of the eight states with these laws. One of these clinicians is New York's Margaret Carpenter, who was criminally…
The Insult of Involuntary Adoption and the Moral Seriousness of Motherhood
Adoption is often framed as an alternative to abortion. However, many women feel that pregnancy and birth made them a mother and that this new identity is not erased by the fact they are not raising that child. This article argues that involuntary adoption occurs when legislative coercion deprives a pregnant person of a realistic abortion option, forcing them into this position of being a parent who is not parenting. The article also argues that …
Obstacles to Accepting Care
Post- Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind
The June 24, 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization resulted in an expansive restriction on abortion access that had been constitutionally guaranteed for nearly half a century. Currently, 14 states have implemented complete bans on abortion with very limited exceptions, and an additional 7 states have implemented abortion bans at 6 to 18 weeks’ gestation. It has been well demonstrated that restrictive polici…
Maternal Indications
59% of abortion patients are already mothers, yet only one qualitative study considers how desires around family formation or family preservation might influence pregnant people's abortion decision-making. In addition, existing studies of reasons for abortion obtain data with surveys and interviews. In this study, we examine spontaneous, anonymous notebook entries written by patients in the pre- and post-procedure waiting room of an abortion clin…
Why the Post- Roe Era Requires Protecting Conscientious Provision as We Protect Conscientious Refusal in Health Care
The US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in June 2022, and now each state's legislature will decide if and when its citizens will have legal access to abortion care and if and when its physicians will be criminalized for providing what is considered to be the standard of care by multiple health-related organizations. This extraordinary change in the medico-legal landscape requires reevaluation of health profession codes of ethics related to cli…
The frequency of pregnancy recognition across the gestational spectrum and its consequences in the United States
People recognize they are pregnant at gestational ages ranging from implantation to delivery, yet there is no comprehensive study that identifies the prevalence of pregnancy recognition at different points across this spectrum in the United States. To help clinicians, policymakers, researchers, educators, and public health advocates understand what is known about the spectrum of pregnancy recognition, this commentary integrates key research in th…
Why We Should Stop Using the Term “Elective Abortion”
In abortion care, the term "elective" is often used as a moral judgment that determines which patients are entitled to care. Secular health care organizations that attempt to avoid controversy by allowing "therapeutic" but not "elective" abortions are using medical terminology to reinforce regressive social norms concerning motherhood and women's sexuality because what distinguishes pregnant women with medical indications for abortion is that the…
It is time to combat abortion stigma
Creativity in Medical Education
Gallows Humor in Medicine
Medical professionals regularly joke about their patients' problems. Some of these jokes are clearly wrong, but are all jokes wrong
Enhancing Reflection
The frequency of pregnancy recognition across the gestational spectrum and its consequences in the United States
People recognize they are pregnant at gestational ages ranging from implantation to delivery, yet there is no comprehensive study that identifies the prevalence of pregnancy recognition at different points across this spectrum in the United States. To help clinicians, policymakers, researchers, educators, and public health advocates understand what is known about the spectrum of pregnancy recognition, this commentary integrates key research in th…
Enhancing Reflection
Gallows Humor in Medicine
Medical professionals regularly joke about their patients' problems. Some of these jokes are clearly wrong, but are all jokes wrong
Creativity in Medical Education
Why We Should Stop Using the Term “Elective Abortion”
In abortion care, the term "elective" is often used as a moral judgment that determines which patients are entitled to care. Secular health care organizations that attempt to avoid controversy by allowing "therapeutic" but not "elective" abortions are using medical terminology to reinforce regressive social norms concerning motherhood and women's sexuality because what distinguishes pregnant women with medical indications for abortion is that the…
It is time to combat abortion stigma
Maternal Indications
59% of abortion patients are already mothers, yet only one qualitative study considers how desires around family formation or family preservation might influence pregnant people's abortion decision-making. In addition, existing studies of reasons for abortion obtain data with surveys and interviews. In this study, we examine spontaneous, anonymous notebook entries written by patients in the pre- and post-procedure waiting room of an abortion clin…
Why the Post- Roe Era Requires Protecting Conscientious Provision as We Protect Conscientious Refusal in Health Care
The US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in June 2022, and now each state's legislature will decide if and when its citizens will have legal access to abortion care and if and when its physicians will be criminalized for providing what is considered to be the standard of care by multiple health-related organizations. This extraordinary change in the medico-legal landscape requires reevaluation of health profession codes of ethics related to cli…
The frequency of pregnancy recognition across the gestational spectrum and its consequences in the United States
People recognize they are pregnant at gestational ages ranging from implantation to delivery, yet there is no comprehensive study that identifies the prevalence of pregnancy recognition at different points across this spectrum in the United States. To help clinicians, policymakers, researchers, educators, and public health advocates understand what is known about the spectrum of pregnancy recognition, this commentary integrates key research in th…
Obstacles to Accepting Care
Post- Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind
The June 24, 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization resulted in an expansive restriction on abortion access that had been constitutionally guaranteed for nearly half a century. Currently, 14 states have implemented complete bans on abortion with very limited exceptions, and an additional 7 states have implemented abortion bans at 6 to 18 weeks’ gestation. It has been well demonstrated that restrictive polici…
The Insult of Involuntary Adoption and the Moral Seriousness of Motherhood
Adoption is often framed as an alternative to abortion. However, many women feel that pregnancy and birth made them a mother and that this new identity is not erased by the fact they are not raising that child. This article argues that involuntary adoption occurs when legislative coercion deprives a pregnant person of a realistic abortion option, forcing them into this position of being a parent who is not parenting. The article also argues that …
Abortion Access Persists, but So Do the Threats
"Shield laws" declare that, for purposes of reproductive health care, the law of the jurisdiction in which the clinician practices governs when state laws conflict. In 2024, approximately 100,000 pregnant people living in states that criminalize abortion provision received pills for a medication abortion from a clinician living in one of the eight states with these laws. One of these clinicians is New York's Margaret Carpenter, who was criminally…
Abortion (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Pregnancy (6 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Health care (3 works)