Abortion access barriers shared in "r/abortion" after <i>Roe</i>: a qualitative analysis of a Reddit community post-<i>Dobbs</i> decision leak in 2022.

ABSTRACT: With drastic changes to abortion policy, the months following the Dobbs leak and subsequent decision in 2022 were a uniquely uncertain and difficult time for abortion access in the United States. To understand experiences of challenges to abortion access during that time, we used a hybrid inductive and deductive thematic coding approach to analyse descriptions of barriers and their impacts shared in an abortion subreddit (r/abortion). A simple random sample of 10% of posts was obtained from those shared from 02 May 2022 through 23 December 2022; comments were purposively sampled during the coding process. In this sample of submissions (n = 523 posts, 88 comments), people described structural barriers identified in past research, including state abortion bans and gestational l

SUBMITTER: Pleasants E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626864 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature