COVID-19 and abortion: making structural violence visible

Nandagiri, Rishita ORCID: 0000-0003-4424-769X, Coast, Ernestina ORCID: 0000-0002-8703-307X and Strong, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-8626-4020 (2020) COVID-19 and abortion: making structural violence visible. International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 46 (1). 83 - 89. ISSN 1944-0391

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COVID-19 has compromised and disrupted sexual and reproductive health (SRH) across multiple dimensions: individual-level access, health systems functioning, and at the policy and governance levels. Disruptions to supply chains, lockdown measures and travel restrictions, and overburdened health systems have particularly affected abortion access and service provision. The pandemic, rather than causing new issues, has heightened and exposed existing fractures and fissures within abortion access and provision. In this viewpoint, we draw on the concept of “structural violence” to make visible the contributing causes of these ruptures and their inequitable impact among different groups.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/ipsrh
Additional Information:	© 2020 Guttmacher Institute
Divisions:	PhD Academy Social Policy International Development LSE Health
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2020 13:15
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 02:23
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107488

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