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Over the past 2 years, I've had the privilege of exploring how new abortion restrictions are impacting the lived experiences and daily lives of people seeking abortion in the U.S. Our team used innovative methods to gather data in real time from Reddit users posting about abortion on r/abortion. The findings I think need immediate attention from advocates: - People are waiting between 1 week to 1 MONTH to get an abortion, especially those who seek procedural in-clinic sources. These wait times (particularly for procedural) are going to keep increasing as states with access absorb people from restricted states and wait times for appointments increase. - People seeking abortion do not have good, easy to find resources for how to manage pregnancy symptoms that are tailored to people who aren't planning to continue a pregnancy. This causes increased suffering and anxiety at a difficult time, and could so easily be improved with better info/access to info. Read MORE on this here: https://lnkd.in/gCMTAich Publication here: https://lnkd.in/gvQsGARQ

New Research Alert: Insights from r/abortion show people wait weeks for an abortion in the US! The Wallace Center, collaborating with DrPH candidate Betsy Pleasants, looked to social networking site Reddit (subreddit r/abortion) to understand how people have experienced and managed increased waits for abortion. The study team looked at posts from the time of SCOTUS’s Jackson v. Dobbs decision through the end of 2022 and found that among posts to r/abortion that described waiting to start an abortion (n=80), wait times ranged from one day to more than one month. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gqiv96aV UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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