‘Cost, stigma, and intimate partner violence continue to impede access to safe, compassionate, and timely abortion care’, a University of Queensland study has found.‘Cost, stigma, and intimate partner violence continue to impede access to safe, compassionate, and timely abortion care’, a University of Queensland study has found.Last modified on Mon 22 Aug 2022 18.48 BST
Queensland women are self-harming and searching for pills on the black market to induce abortions as they face chronic delays, financial pressures andstudy published in the CSIRO’s Sexual Health journal which analysed almost 2,000 anonymous client records from the pregnancy counselling service Children by Choice between December 2018 and June 2020.
“Cost, stigma, and intimate partner violence continue to impede access to safe, compassionate, and timely abortion care,” the report found.The research revealed that 43% of clients had been exposed to family or intimate partner violence, including reproductive coercion and abuse. A counsellor reported one woman was called a “murderer” by the man involved with her pregnancy who stole the money she had saved for an abortion.
Clients frequently expressed anxiety about how they would afford abortions, with more than 42% seeking financial assistance to access a termination.
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