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Harassment and Violence Against Health Professionals Who Provide Reproductive Care: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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It should not be viewed as harassment of, threats to, and physical attacks against providing consensus conclusions or recommendations of health care professionals working to provide essential the National Academies. reproductive health care. During the webinar, medical and human rights experts discussed both longstanding FRAMEWORK FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AS concerns related to violence and harassment against HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS health care professionals providing abortion care in Moderator Justin Lappen, Cleveland Clinic and Case the United States and within the context of the 2022 Western Reserve University School of Medicine, opened Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v.
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The first is abortion access is part of "rights States, Shah said, and were a concern before the Dobbs to reproductive autonomy and health protected under decision. She explained that, prior to Dobbs, the Supreme international human rights law," and the second is Court of Texas upheld Senate Bill 8, which exposed health care workers, including abortion providers, clinicians to frivolous lawsuits from private individuals "often play a crucial role as human rights defenders on for providing abortion care, creating a climate of stigma the frontlines of delivering essential health care" and and fear which deputizes the enforcement to private may be recognized as having experienced human rights parties and may potentially incite violence against those violations when they experience harassment or violence who aid and facilitate a pregnant woman's access to related to their provision of care.
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that the UN Human Rights Committee spoke out in November 2023 about the risks clinicians face as a result Because of the precautions taken and safety trainings of the criminalization of abortion. 4 provided, Beasley said that she feels safe once inside the building and added that she has attended active shooter EFFECTS OF HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE ON THE HEALTH AND training "more often than I can count." WELL-BEING OF PROVIDERS Anitra Beasley, Baylor College of Medicine, related In terms of legal concerns, Beasley explained that she stories of violence and harassment experienced by has been investigated for murder for providing abortion clinicians providing abortion care, listed ways in which care and emphasized that, in Texas, she practices under this violence has been normalized, and discussed the the threat of litigation under a bounty hunter law where effects of violence and harassment on the health and anyone can sue anyone who provides a prohibited well-being of providers.
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murder. Cohen closed by describing two laws that have been put In 1991, Cohen explained, abortion providers became in place in response to the harassment and violence victims of gun violence for the first time when two targeting individuals providing abortion care.
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Davidson said that states with abortion Davidson said the organization's Security and Safe Access protections saw a disproportionate increase in violence Program provides 24/7 emergency response and support and disruption last year because many anti-abortion for members and, for severe acts of violence, respond in- extremists shifted their attention to those states. person to assist with threat mitigation, law enforcement, For example, Davidson noted in states with abortion acting as a liaison, and ensuring that anyone affected protections, assault and battery and stalking increased has the resources they need to address immediate and by 29 percent and 913 percent, respectively, while continuing safety concerns.
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Harris said that her research indicates work to describe work that has been stigmatized. Stigma that doctors can most effectively interrupt the cycle when generates a loss of humanity, Harris emphasized, saying they communicate about "the complexities in abortion, "that loss of humanity is central in how and why violence show compassion when they talk, even for people who happens." She added that, according to psychologist Greg may not believe the things that they believe, and avoid Herek, "When law and policy demonize a group or a class sounding like "political pundits." of people" it leads to "a climate of condemnation." In the case of abortion access, restrictive laws that target Harris closed by discussing the role of social polarization providers simultaneously reinvigorate the stigmatizing in harassment and violence against abortion care stereotypes that they rely on, Harris said.
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Harris added that her unit because her state does not have a protective law team's research found that most people view abortion like the extended Safe at Home laws described earlier. as a contested political issue and not as health care and Cohen explained that harassment and violence targeting noted that to end polarization, it will be important to clinicians providing abortion care is "an attack on all have "compassion and curiosity for people who may not medical workers," and this framing can lead to more agree with us." MARCH 2024 | 7
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MEMBERS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, EQUITY, AND SOCIETY Claire Brindis (Chair) , University of California, San Francisco; Andreia Alexander, Indiana University School of Medicine; Elizabeth Ananat, Barnard College, Columbia University, and National Bureau of Economic Research; Ned Calonge, Colorado School of Public Health; Judy Chang, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Ellen Wright Clayton, Vanderbilt University; Cat Dymond, Atlanta Birth Center; Michelle Bratcher Goodwin, Georgetown University Law Center; Barbara Grosz, Harvard University; Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; Lisa Harris, University of Michigan; Justin R
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