It's Not Mifepristone, But It's Not Poison

Finding Fakes in Poland's Abortion Underground

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4380160
AutoresSydney Calkin (0000-0003-3791-8029, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume42
Fascículo2
Páginas47-64
Data de publicação2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/cja.2024.420205
OpenAlexW4405228932
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas30

In Poland almost all abortions are illegal and unavailable in the formal medical system. Networks of activists help people obtain abortion pills for secret use. I conducted research among medication abortion activists, abortion providers, abortion pill vendors, and abortion advocates in Poland and abroad, about anxieties that adhere to these pills. I learned that though activists source and provide the same pills used in settings where abortion is legal, pills in Poland's clandestine settings are mired as much in worries about fakeness as about prosecution. I make sense of this by showing how worries about fake pills in Poland speak less to the pharmaceutical properties of medicines than to the political, moral, legal, and geographical boundaries they cross as they circulate

Abortion · Mifepristone · Pill · Political science · Politics · Pregnancy · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies