Living Through Some Giant Change
The Establishment of Abortion Services
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11040310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johanna Schoen (Johanna Schoen is with the Department of History and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 416-425 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2012.301173 |
| PMID | 23327251 |
| PMCID | PMC3673524 |
| OpenAlex | W2157952022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article traces the establishment of abortion clinics following Roe v Wade. Abortion clinics followed one of two models: (1) a medical model in which physicians emphasized the delivery of high quality medical services, contrasting their clinics with the back-alley abortion services that had sent many women to hospital emergency rooms prior to legalization, or (2) a feminist model in which clinics emphasized education and the dissemination of information to empower women patients and change the structure of women’s health care. Male physicians and feminists came together in the newly established abortion services and argued over the priorities and characteristics of health care delivery. A broad range of clinics emerged, from feminist clinics to medical offices run by traditional male physicians to for-profit clinics. The establishment of the National Abortion Federation in the mid-1970s created a national forum of health professionals and contributed to the broadening of the discussion and the adoption of compromises as both feminists and physicians influenced each other's practices
Abortion · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Health care · Legalization · Medical abortion · Misoprostol · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Research methodology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |