Marta Bornstein (she/her)

Challenges Faced by Sexual Minority and Heterosexual People Seeking Abortion Care | LGBT Health Purpose: This study assessed and compared the number and types of challenges and expense delays experienced by sexual minority and heterosexual individuals seeking abortion care. Methods: We analyzed cross-sectional survey data from 1953 individuals who sought an abortion at 25 clinics in five US states from April 2020 to February 2023. The survey asked about 12 challenges (e.g., transportation, emotional burden, cost) and 4 expense delays (e.g., rent, food) associated with obtaining an abortion. We examined types and number of challenges and expense delays by sexual identity. We conducted negative binomial regression (number of challenges) and logistic regression (any expense delay) to quantify differences. Results: Most participants in the analytic sample (N = 1833) experienced at least one challenge to obtaining an abortion (90%), with sexual minority participants (n = 349) experiencing a greater median number of challenges than heterosexual participants (n = 1484) (4 [interquartile range = 2–6] vs. 3 [1–4]; p < 0.001). Sexual minority participants were also more likely to delay an expense (40% vs. 28%; p < 0.001). Adjusting for other factors, sexual minority participants experienced significantly increased challenges (adjusted incident risk ratio = 1.2; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.1–1.3) and had greater odds of delaying an expense (adjusted odds ratio = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.2–2.1). Conclusions: Sexual minority individuals face more challenges and are more likely to delay expenses to obtain an abortion. Thus, sexual minority individuals may need additional support specific to the challenges they face, including financial assistance, transportation, and psychosocial support. Addressing inequalities that disproportionately impact sexual minority individuals within society and reproductive health care will help ensure that abortion is more accessible.

Challenges to seeking abortion care are rampant, and challenges are even more intense for queer people.

More than 20% of queer folks in our study delayed buying food to get an abortion.

TLDR: Queer people, like all people, need access to abortion care.

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Relocation Post-Dobbs Among Clinicians Providing Abortions This survey study compares the proportion of abortion-providing clinicians who changed primary state of practice after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022.

In our survey of clinicians providing abortions across the US found that since Dobbs, 4 out of 10 clinicians who practiced in states banning abortion have relocated to another state, almost all moving to states without abortion bans. Patients are left behind. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“I don't know if I'm a dad, I don't know if I'm a mom, I think I'm both”: Gender identity, parenting desires, and pregnancy among transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive adults Many transgender and gender expansive (trans∗) people assigned female at birth retain the capacity for pregnancy and want to become parents, through p…

Proud of our new pub on pregnancy & parenthood experiences of trans, nonbinary, & gender expansive people.

We need change that invites expansive gender expression in pregnancy & parenthood. Seemed a lot more achievable when we submitted the paper last year.

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I would really like to know the answer to this as well.

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox) *While we assist abortion seekers in Georgia and Alabama as well, we are located in South Carolina so we may reference South Carolina laws when discussing access to abortion.*  Right now, abortion is...

We are able to pledge for appointments through tomorrow and then we need to PAUSE funding due to lack of $$ —

We still have the South Carolinian in need next week that we’re already committed to.

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Thanks for this incredibly important work!

While working on these studies, this was the finding that I couldn't stop thinking about.

Reproductive justice folks warned us about this.

Disclaimer on the CDC YRBS website regarding the T administration policy of rejecting “gender ideology” and warning that the information is inaccurate.

This message is violent. Trans, nonbinary, gender expansive people make our world better. Hegemonic, toxic masculinity (ahem, actual *gender ideology*) make our world infinitely worse and less safe.

Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

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Top 5 reasons to get an abortion:
1. Because you want one
2. Because you want one
3. Because you want one
4. Because you want one
5. Because you want one

And by lol I do mean sobbing into my pillow.

This list is baffling. Not complaining, but surprised trans/transgender, queer, lgbtq, etc are not on the list…they took time to list “barrier” and “barriers” but forgot some of the words/groups they hate the most? I guess my work on queer abortion lives another day lol (not funded by nsf obviously)

Gay? Lesbian? Trans? Intersex?

NYC Health has health information for everybody. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We sure would love to see University Presidents take a stand.

Tell your Senators: Oppose Kennedy for Health and Human Services Secretary Please contact Congress now!

Are you against Kennedy's nomination? I absolutely am.

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Did you know that six in ten abortion seekers in the United States are already parents?

They know precisely what it takes to raise a child.

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!

Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com