A trauma-informed examination of the hardships experienced by abortion fund patients in the United States |
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| Authors: | Gretchen E. Ely Travis Hales D. Lynn Jackson Elizabeth A. Bowen Eugene Maguin Greer Hamilton |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Work, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA;2. Department of Social Work, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
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| Abstract: | Researchers describe hardships experienced by abortion patients, examining administrative health cases from 2010 to 2015 in the United States. All patients received financial assistance from an abortion fund to help pay for abortion. Case data were analyzed to assess types and numbers of hardships experienced by age, race, and geographic origin. Hardships ranged from homelessness to parenting multiple children. Patients from the geographic South experienced the most hardships, followed by those from the Midwest. Hardships experienced by abortion fund patients are like those reported in other samples of abortion patients; hardships potentially cause or exacerbate trauma. Results are discussed in the context of a trauma-informed perspective. |
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