Why Maternal and Child Health Researchers Must Center Bodily Autonomy to Remain Relevant in the Post-Dobbs Era
Researchers and advocates often overlook the fundamental issue of bodily autonomy in post-Dobbs abortion discourse.
Access to care is a complex topic that includes the study of whether sufficient health care resources exist to meet people’s needs, as well as whether people experience physical, financial or other barriers to those services. Evidence in this area can span from whether a rural community has enough specialists, like cardiologists, to whether people in an urban community have transportation or language barriers that make seeing health care providers more difficult.