REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE STUDY
Abortion on the Move: Navigating the Fractured Reproductive Healthcare Landscape
About the project
The passage of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization in June of 2022 initiated a new wave of abortion restrictions. It is important for abortion providers, policy makers, politicians, and the public to know how these new laws have impacted our communities. So, we are conducting an interview project to find out!
We want to understand how women, and pregnant peoples, access abortion care, when they cannot obtain an abortion in their home state. We are doing interviews with individuals who used an abortion fund and traveled out-of-state to access care to identify barriers and forms of support people experienced. Abortion seekers will receive $50 in compensation for the interview through electronic payment.
In addition to speaking with abortion seekers, we are interviewing abortion providers, abortion clinic and fund staff, policy makers, and others who work and volunteer to provide abortion access.
Is this you?
We would love to have your participation!
To participate in an interview you must be 18 years or older and living in the US. All interviews are anonymous. Abortion seekers will receive $50 in compensation for the interview through electronic payment.
Your interview will last between one and two hours. Please follow the links below to access more information about the interview process, the topics that will be covered in the interview, and how we protect your confidentiality.
More Information
Did you receive an abortion with abortion fund support?
Click here for a detailed information sheet about participation.
Do you work or volunteer in the area of abortion service or support?
Click here for a detailed information sheet about participation.
Do you have any questions about participation?
Please contact the research team by phone 847-260-7104
How to participate
Please text or leave a voicemail for the research team at 847-260-7104 to share your interest in participation.
Once we receive your message, someone from the research team will call you for a short conversation to review key details about the study, answer any questions you may have, and coordinate the date and time for the interview.
These interviews touch on sensitive subject matter.
All participants are encouraged to download the linked resource sheet. The resource sheet provides a list of phone lines you can call to receive support about aspects of pregnancy and abortion.
Why are we doing this study?
This project carries out the important work of collecting the experiences of women, and other pregnant peoples, who try to access abortion when faced with legal restrictions. The goal of this project is to identify barriers that create challenges for pregnant people who travel out-of-state for abortion care. The findings of this research will be shared in policy reports, academic research papers, and directly with our organizational partner, the Midwest Access Coalition abortion fund, to assist in program improvement.
Who is leading this project?
Dr. Claire Decoteau is the lead researcher overseeing this study. Claire is a professor in the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has over a decade of experience conducting research in the areas of health, care access, and the healthcare system. She has conducted multiple other interview projects that have been similarly focused on policy impacts. You can find out more about Claire and her work here: https://soc.uic.edu/profiles/claire-decoteau/
Who is on the Research Team?
Tirza Ochrach-Konradi, is a graduate student in the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a research assistant on the project, she is supporting recruitment, scheduling, and interview collection. She has experience conducting research interviews on health and systems of care.
Ni’Shele Jackson is a graduate student in the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a research assistant on the project, they support recruitment, scheduling, and interview collection in English as well as in Spanish. Their research interests revolve around ways we can create more just, communal, and empowering visions of embodied health and health programs
Monse Rodriguez Rico is a graduate student in the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a research assistant on the project, she supports recruitment, scheduling, and interview collection in English as well as in Spanish. She is interested in studying the connections between nonprofits and academia as racialized organizations. More specifically in regards to how workers may feel disillusioned in these spaces and the consequences of this reality. In her research, she hopes to study these issues using community engaged research methods and a qualitative lens.