Framing the Emergence of Abortion Debt after Dobbs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4836201
AutoresBraxton Brewington (autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen124
Número3
Páginas635-648
Fecha de publicación2025-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-11850277
OpenAlexW4412483326
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas25

The 2022 Dobbs decision has made abortion access costlier, forcing pregnant people to travel across multiple state lines and spend considerably more on procedures-putting doctors at risk of criminalization and women at risk of death. But the decision has also done something else. Reproductive justice organizers and debt abolitionists are drawing attention to "abortion debt," a new category in the already harrowing structure of medical debt. Recently, the Debt Collective-a union of debtors, modeled after a labor union-contributed directly to a network of abortion funds to prevent the emergence of abortion debt and inject a new intersectional analysis of gender, health care, and financialization into mainstream political discourse. This article seeks to reveal abortion debt's origins in patriarchal state violence, the violent history of Black women's reproduction since chattel slavery, and the ways in which gender can expand household debt's territory. Starting from these critiques but refusing to end with them, this analysis highlights an opportunity for organized debt resistance and feminist, anti-racist organizing

Abortion · Biology · Debt · Economics · Framing (construction) · Law and economics · Political science · Pregnancy · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · History · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Russia and Soviet political economy