#12159. COVID-19, health care, and abortion exceptionalism in the United States

August 2026publication date
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Sociology and Political Science;
Obstetrics and Gynecology;
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health;
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Abstract:
Few qualitative findings have been published that identify the challenges experienced by independent abortion providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In this paper, we explore these themes while expanding the concept of “abortion exceptionalism” beyond its original legal meaning to address the impact of abortion stigma. Abortion providers from independent abortion clinics participated in semi-structured interviews. These interviews explored the challenges of providing abortion care in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and sought to identify how clinics strategized and amended their clinical practices to continue providing abortion care during this time. All providers we spoke to noted significant challenges to providing abortion care in the early days of COVID-19. In addition to experiencing the same concerns as other health care institutions, abortion clinics also faced unique burdens: abrupt orders to close clinics, the need to rely on traveling physicians, legislature-imposed limits on telemedicine, heightened activities of protesters, and non-evidence-based regulation of medication abortion.
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