Understanding abortion legality and trimester of abortion care in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, three abortion-restrictive states.

Introduction: In the era of Dobbs, legality of abortion care in the United States depends upon state law. Even before Dobbs, while abortion remained legal mounting restrictions and debate surrounding legal abortion could have led to confusion about abortion legality and discouraged patients from accessing legal abortion. We hypothesized an association between believing abortion is illegal or uncertainty about legality with later timing of abortion care.

Prior knowledge and experience with self-managed abortion among people seeking abortion care in US Midwestern states.

Objectives: This study seeks to understand what methods people use and/or have heard of others using for self-managed abortion (SMA) prior to coming to a health facility for abortion care.

Study Design: We collected survey data on sociodemographics, gestational stage, and SMA awareness and methods from patients seeking care in 17 abortion facilities in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Illinois from April 2020 to April 2022. We used descriptive statistics to examine the proportion of participants who had attempted SMA and, separately, who had heard of people attempting SMA.

Assessing psychosocial costs: Ohio patients' experiences seeking abortion care.

Objectives: Existing research has not thoroughly characterized the psychosocial costs associated with seeking abortion care in restrictive states. Our study seeks to fill this gap by analyzing the accounts of Ohio abortion patients from 2018 to 2019.

Study Design: Using inductive and deductive approaches, we analyzed semi-structured in-depth qualitative interviews with 41 Ohio residents who obtained abortion care from one of three clinics in Ohio or Pennsylvania.

Provider Mistrust and Telemedicine Abortion Care Preferences Among Patients in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

The convenience and privacy provided by telemedicine medication abortion may make this service preferable to patients who mistrust their abortion provider. We assessed associations between mistrust in the abortion provider and preferences for telemedicine abortion. From April 2020 to April 2021, we surveyed patients seeking abortion in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

Selecting an Abortion Clinic: The Role of Social Myths and Risk Perception in Seeking Abortion Care.

Recent shifts in the abortion provision landscape have generated increased concern about how people find abortion care as regulations make abortion less accessible and clinics close. Few studies examine the reasons that people select particular facilities in such constrained contexts. Drawing from interviews with 41 Ohio residents, we find that people's clinic selections are influenced by the risks they associate with abortion care.