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 ‘[E]ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic., Berro Pizzarossa, L., Coast, E., Kareithi, W., & Duffy, D. (2025), Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1–17

The Struggle for Bodily Autonomy: A Historical Perspective on Self-Managed Abortion in the United States,  Susan Yanow, (2024), South Atlantic Quarterly

https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/doi/10.1215/00382876-11235559/388678/The-Struggle-for-Bodily-Autonomy-A-Historical?guestAccessKey=09cbbc3f-8b7f-407f-b041-bdbdc1777466
 

Self-Managed Abortion in Africa: The Decriminalization Imperative in Regional Human Rights Standards, Berro Pizzarossa, L., Maziwisa, M. & Durojaye, E, (2023), Health and Human Rights

https://www.hhrjournal.org/2023/05/self-managed-abortion-in-africa-the-decriminalization-imperative-in-regional-human-rights-standards/

Transgressing biomedical and legal boundaries: The “enticing and hazardous” challenges and promises of a Self-Managed Abortion multiverse., Nandagiri, Rishita & Berro Pizzarossa, Lucía. (2023).  Women's Studies International Forum. 100. 102799. 10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102799.

Self-managed abortion via the internet: Analysis of one year of service delivery data from Women Help Women, Shochet, T., Berro Pizzarossa, L., Larrea, S., Blum, J., Jelinska, K., Comendant, R., & Sagaidac, I. (2023), Gates Open Research

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130357/pdf/gatesopenres-7-15680.pdf

https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/7-41

Documenting activism and advocacy around medication abortion in Central, East, and West Africa, Marta Bornstein, Yves-Yvette Young, Lucia Berro Pizzarossa, Margot Jeanne Cohen and Jade Maina (2023), African Journal of Reproductive Health January

https://www.ajrh.info/index.php/ajrh/article/view/3683/pdf

Supporting, Not Reporting — Emergency Department Ethics in a Post-Roe Era, Katie Watson, Maureen Paul, Susan Yanow, and Jay Baruch (2022) The New England Journal of Medicine

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2209312

The Critical Role of Midwives in Safe Self-Managed Abortion, Meghan Eagen-Torkko Susan Yanow (2021) Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, September 2021

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmwh.13289

“No one should be alone in living this process”: trajectories, experiences and user’s perceptions about the quality of abortion care in a telehealth service in Chile, Sara Larrea, Camila Hidalgo, Constanza Jacques-Aviñó, Carme Borrell & Laia Palència (2021) Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2021.1948953

Self-managed abortion: Exploring synergies between institutional medical systems and autonomous health movements, Susan Yanow, Lucía Berro Pizzarossa and Kinga Jelinska (2021) Women Help Women


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001078242100189X

“It's not a seven-headed beast”: abortion experience among women that received support from helplines for medication abortion in restrictive settings. Sarah E. Baum, Ana Maria Ramirez, Sara Larrea, Sofia Filippa, Ijeoma Egwuatu , Justyna Wydrzynska, Magdalena Piasecka, Sybil Nmezi & Kinga Jelinska (2020) Health Care for Women International

Requests for medication abortion support in Brazil during and after the Zika epidemic. Alexandra Wollum, Sara Larrea, Caitlin Gerdts & Kinga Jelinska (2020) Global Public Health

https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1809694

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Why self-managed abortion is so much more than a provisional solution for times of pandemic. Mariana Prandini Assis & Sara Larrea (2020) Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2020.1779633

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D.I.Y. Self-managed abortion. Susan Yanow, Joanna Erdman, Kinga Jelinska,  Conscience Magazine, Sept 2019

https://consciencemag.org/2019/09/19/d-i-y/

Contextualizing medication abortion in seven African nations: A literature review, Heidi Moseson, Jessica Shaw, Sruthi Chandrasekaran, Esther Kimani, Jedidah Maina, Pearson Malisau, Yiga Musa, Sybil Nmezi, Kitungano Philipo, Eva Bonnefoy Borjas, Yves-Yvette Young (2019)  Health Care for Women International

https://mamanetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/contextualizing-medication-abortion-in-seven-african-nations-a-literature-review_updated.pdf

Self-managed Abortion Highlights Need to Decriminalize Abortion Worldwide, Skuster P, Yanow S, Jelinska K, Rewire. 2018 Nov;

https://rewire.news/article/2018/11/12/self-managed-abortion-decriminalize/

Self-Managed Abortion and Embodying the Principles of Reproductive Justice, Fried MG, Yanow S, Rewire. 2018 Jan;

https://rewire.news/article/2018/01/12/self-managed-abortion-embodying-principles-reproductive-justice/

Understandings of self-managed abortion as health inequity, harm reduction, and social change, Erdman JN, Jelinska K, Yanow S,  Reprod Health Matters. 2018 Nov;26(54):13-19

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09688080.2018.1511769

Putting abortion pills into women's hands: realizing the full potential of medical abortion, Jelinska K, Yanow S, Contraception. 2018 Feb;97(2):86-89

https://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(17)30372-4/fulltext