publications
Our Publications
The Struggle for Bodily Autonomy: A Historical Perspective on Self-Managed Abortion in the United States, Susan Yanow, (2024), South Atlantic Quarterly
Self-Managed Abortion in Africa: The Decriminalization Imperative in Regional Human Rights Standards, Berro Pizzarossa, L., Maziwisa, M. & Durojaye, E, (2023), Health and Human Rights
Self-managed abortion via the internet: Analysis of one year of service delivery data from Women Help Women, Shochet, T., Berro Pizzarossa, L., Larrea, S., Blum, J., Jelinska, K., Comendant, R., & Sagaidac, I. (2023), Gates Open Research
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130357/pdf/gatesopenres-7-15680.pdf
https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/7-41
Documenting activism and advocacy around medication abortion in Central, East, and West Africa, Marta Bornstein, Yves-Yvette Young, Lucia Berro Pizzarossa, Margot Jeanne Cohen and Jade Maina (2023), African Journal of Reproductive Health January
https://www.ajrh.info/index.php/ajrh/article/view/3683/pdf
Supporting, Not Reporting — Emergency Department Ethics in a Post-Roe Era, Katie Watson, Maureen Paul, Susan Yanow, and Jay Baruch (2022) The New England Journal of Medicine
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2209312
The Critical Role of Midwives in Safe Self-Managed Abortion, Meghan Eagen-Torkko Susan Yanow (2021) Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, September 2021
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmwh.13289
“No one should be alone in living this process”: trajectories, experiences and user’s perceptions about the quality of abortion care in a telehealth service in Chile, Sara Larrea, Camila Hidalgo, Constanza Jacques-Aviñó, Carme Borrell & Laia Palència (2021) Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2021.1948953
Self-managed abortion: Exploring synergies between institutional medical systems and autonomous health movements, Susan Yanow, Lucía Berro Pizzarossa and Kinga Jelinska (2021) Women Help Women
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001078242100189X
“It's not a seven-headed beast”: abortion experience among women that received support from helplines for medication abortion in restrictive settings. Sarah E. Baum, Ana Maria Ramirez, Sara Larrea, Sofia Filippa, Ijeoma Egwuatu , Justyna Wydrzynska, Magdalena Piasecka, Sybil Nmezi & Kinga Jelinska (2020) Health Care for Women International
Requests for medication abortion support in Brazil during and after the Zika epidemic. Alexandra Wollum, Sara Larrea, Caitlin Gerdts & Kinga Jelinska (2020) Global Public Health
https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1809694
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Why self-managed abortion is so much more than a provisional solution for times of pandemic. Mariana Prandini Assis & Sara Larrea (2020) Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2020.1779633
D.I.Y. Self-managed abortion. Susan Yanow, Joanna Erdman, Kinga Jelinska, Conscience Magazine, Sept 2019
https://consciencemag.org/2019/09/19/d-i-y/
Contextualizing medication abortion in seven African nations: A literature review, Heidi Moseson, Jessica Shaw, Sruthi Chandrasekaran, Esther Kimani, Jedidah Maina, Pearson Malisau, Yiga Musa, Sybil Nmezi, Kitungano Philipo, Eva Bonnefoy Borjas, Yves-Yvette Young (2019) Health Care for Women International
Self-managed Abortion Highlights Need to Decriminalize Abortion Worldwide, Skuster P, Yanow S, Jelinska K, Rewire. 2018 Nov;
https://rewire.news/article/2018/11/12/self-managed-abortion-decriminalize/
Self-Managed Abortion and Embodying the Principles of Reproductive Justice, Fried MG, Yanow S, Rewire. 2018 Jan;
Understandings of self-managed abortion as health inequity, harm reduction, and social change, Erdman JN, Jelinska K, Yanow S, Reprod Health Matters. 2018 Nov;26(54):13-19
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09688080.2018.1511769
Putting abortion pills into women's hands: realizing the full potential of medical abortion, Jelinska K, Yanow S, Contraception. 2018 Feb;97(2):86-89
https://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(17)30372-4/fulltext
Other Publications that mention WHW
Self-Managed Abortion: Strategies for Support by a Global Feminist Movement, Naomi Braine & Marissa Velarde (2022) Women's Reproductive Health
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23293691.2022.2016142
"Hospitals have some procedures that seem dehumanising to me": Experiences of abortion-related obstetric violence in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador, Sara Larrea, Mariana Prandini Assis and Camila Ochoa Mendoza (2021) Agenda
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ragn20/current
Abortion rights beyond the medico-legal paradigm, Mariana Prandini Assis and Joanna N. Erdman (2021) Global Public Health
Toward Human Rights and Evidence-Based Legal Frameworks for (Self-Managed) Abortion: A Review of the Last Decade of Legal Reform, Lucía Berro Pizzarossa and Patty Skuster (2021) Health and Human Rights Journal
Self-managed abortion: a constellation of actors, a cacophony of laws?, Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Rishita Nandagiri (2021) Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2021.1899764
Empowerment and Privacy? Home Use of Abortion Pills in the Republic of Ireland, Sally Sheldon (2018) The University of Chicago
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/696625
How can a state control swallowing? The home use of abortion pills in Ireland, SallySheldon (2016) Reproductive Health Matters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0968808016300349
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1521693419301166
Abortion by telemedicine in Northern Ireland: patient and professional rights across borders, Tamara Hervey, Sally Sheldon (2017) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/nilq68&div=5&id=&page=
Contributing factors to unsafe abortion practices among women of reproductive age at selected district hospitals in the Ashanti region of Ghana, Confidence Alorse Atakro, Stella Boatemaa Addo, Janet Sintim Aboagye, Awube Menlah, Isabella Garti, Kwaku Gyimah Amoa-Gyarteng, Theresa Sarpong, Peter Adatara, Kwasi Junior Kumah, Bernard Bediako Asare, Ami Korkor Mensah, Squiter Hans Lutterodt & George Sedinam Boni (2019) BMC Women's Health
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12905-019-0759-5
The Genie is out of the Bottle: Self-managed abortions in Northern Ireland Using Pills, Goretti Horgan (2019) Access Research Knowledge
https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/default/files/2019-03/update127.pdf
Autonomous Health Movements: Criminalization, De-Medicalization, and Community-Based Direct Action, Naomi Braine (2020) Health and Human Rights
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348732925_Autonomous_Health_Movements_Criminalization_De-Medicalization_and_Community-Based_Direct_Action