Funded by the Socirty of Family Planning
Funding Years: 2015
Women who seek abortions and the caregivers who provide them are stigmatized. Since 2007, this research team has investigated the experiences of abortion providers in the US, Latin America, and East Africa. Their narratives have informed a very successful abortion human resource intervention, the Providers Share Workshop. The goal now is to consider how these narratives might be used in service of building a new strategic communications initiative to contribute to the broader goals of reducing abortion stigma in the US and abroad. The research team will assemble an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners with expertise in public communication about abortion, to identify promising communication strategies, and to craft an extramural grant proposal to test these strategies.
PI(s): Jane Hassinger, Lisa Harris, Lisa Martin