On Sunday morning, we awoke to news of the unfathomable. A single gunman entered an LGBT nightclub, PULSE Orlando, and opened fire. The numbers are everywhere, but we will repeat…
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Originally posted on U.S. News and World Reports By Susan Milligan Safe, legal and rare. For decades, that was the mantra of the Democratic Party on abortion, a phrase coined…
We design conceptual models to help us figure out how systems work and to design intervention strategies at each level of that system. We designed the conceptual model above based on interviews…
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"Even for women who have had access to abortion with tons of support from family and friends along the way, these can be hard stories to tell. It's harder to make legislative decisions that affect women's access to healthcare when you're in touch with their real lives and experiences." - Steph Herold in the International Business Times
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/shout-your-abortion-founder-amelia-bonow-criticises-la-times-sensationalist-death-threat-article-1522170"The problem for a long time was that this [abortion] stigma felt like a negative cloud...There has been so much focus on legal strategies, and not a lot of attention to strategies for culture change.”Our Executive Director Kate Cockrill in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/us/hashtag-campaign-twitter-abortion.html?_r=1How can organizations respond when we see our own allies unintentionally stigmatizing abortion, or realize we’re doing it ourselves? We share our thoughts in our second Medium piece, and would love…
Addressing Abortion Stigma Through Service Delivery
We are excited to release our white paper, “Addressing Abortion Stigma through Service Delivery,” co-authored with our colleagues at Ibis Reproductive Health and Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. Written in 2013 and updated…
Our Outreach and Evaluation Manager Roula AbiSamra and one of our Untold Stories authors Karen Thurston are both quoted in this piece on Mic.com about the power of person-to-person storytelling…