Johnson Erin R, McLemore Monica R
Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana, USA.
Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York, New York, USA.
Health Equity. 2025 Aug 22;9(1):397-404. doi: 10.1177/24731242251369612. eCollection 2025.
Where you live impacts your access to all forms of health care, but abortion in particular. In response to restrictions on abortion, communities have organized to support those seeking abortion care via abortion funds. This study documents the services provided by these organizations and examines how they have been shaped by local conditions.
Data come from a content analysis of the websites of all abortion funds affiliated with the National Network of Abortion Funds and interviews with 22 abortion fund leaders. Content analysis data presented include data about abortion funds' catchment area and what services funds provide.
Types of support offered by abortion funds include procedure funding, practical support, emotional support, other sexual health services, and parenting support. Interviews with fund leaders show that these services are shaped by local policies, cultural and geographic specifics of their catchment area, local clinics, and ties to other organizations in funds' communities.
Abortion funds are a diverse group of organizations that provide a variety of services to help patients overcome barriers to abortion. The geographic patterning of their services suggest that funds are responding to local environments, with the greatest variety of services being offered by funds in the South.
Abortion funds' service offerings clearly respond to the barriers to abortion described in the literature, driven by the needs of their local communities. This is particularly relevant in a post-Dobbs environment, as patients in some parts of the country find abortion even farther out of their reach.
你居住的地方会影响你获得所有形式医疗保健的机会，尤其是堕胎服务。为应对堕胎限制，社区组织起来通过堕胎基金支持寻求堕胎护理的人。本研究记录了这些组织提供的服务，并考察了它们是如何受到当地情况影响的。
数据来自对所有隶属于全国堕胎基金网络的堕胎基金网站的内容分析，以及对22位堕胎基金负责人的访谈。呈现的内容分析数据包括有关堕胎基金服务区域以及基金提供何种服务的数据。
堕胎基金提供的支持类型包括手术资金、实际支持、情感支持、其他性健康服务和育儿支持。对基金负责人的访谈表明，这些服务受到当地政策、其服务区域的文化和地理特点、当地诊所，以及与基金所在社区其他组织的联系的影响。
堕胎基金是多种多样的组织，它们提供各种服务以帮助患者克服堕胎障碍。其服务的地理分布模式表明，基金在响应当地环境，南方的基金提供的服务种类最多。
堕胎基金提供的服务显然是在响应文献中所述的堕胎障碍，这是由其当地社区的需求驱动的。在多布斯案后的环境中，这一点尤为重要，因为该国某些地区的患者发现堕胎变得更加遥不可及。
