Full Adjunct Professor
M_ObGyn-Bixby-ZSFG
+1 415 502-2694
Katrina Kimport, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences of the University of California, San Francisco and sociologist in the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program at UCSF. Her research focuses on the (re)production of inequality, with a topical focus on abortion, contraception, and pregnancy.
Publications
Not actively dying: An inductive categorization of obstetric cases negatively affected by post-Dobbs abortion bans.
Contraception
Caring for Pregnancy-Related Emergencies after Dobbs.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Regulating Abortion Later in Pregnancy: Fetal-Centric Laws and the Erasure of Women's Subjectivity.
Journal of health politics, policy and law
The experiences and perspectives of abortion seekers who travel for care: a qualitative evidence synthesis.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews
The pleasure, joy and positive emotional experiences of abortion accompaniment after 17 weeks' gestation.
Culture, health & sexuality
Introduction: The Politics of Abortion 50 Years after Roe.
Journal of health politics, policy and law
Exploring the emotional costs of abortion travel in the United States due to legal restriction.
Contraception
Commentary: The Turnaway Study: A case of self-correction in science upended by political motivation and unvetted findings.
Frontiers in psychology
Prenatal Care as a Gateway to Other Health Care: A Qualitative Study.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Abortion after Dobbs: Defendants, denials, and delays.
Science advances
Making a third-trimester abortion referral: Learning from patients.
Patient education and counseling
Is third-trimester abortion exceptional? Two pathways to abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy in the United States.
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
The Problem with ‘Justifying’ Abortion: Why Real Reproductive Justice Cannot be Achieved by Theorizing the Legitimacy of Abortion
Women's Reproductive Health
Reducing the burdens of forced abortion travel: Referrals, financial and emotional support, and opportunities for positive experiences in traveling for third-trimester abortion care.
Social science & medicine (1982)
No Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy
No Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy
What are We Forgetting? Sexuality, Sex, and Embodiment in Abortion Research.
Journal of sex research
"It's Worked Well for Me": Young Women's Reasons for Choosing Lower-Efficacy Contraceptive Methods.
Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology
In-person later abortion accompaniment: a feminist collective-facilitated self-care practice in Latin America.
Sexual and reproductive health matters
Emotions over five years after denial of abortion in the United States: Contextualizing the effects of abortion denial on women's health and lives.
Social science & medicine (1982)
A qualitative exploration of women's experiences discovering pregnancies in the emergency department.
Contraception: X
Pregnant Women's Reasons for and Experiences of Visiting Antiabortion Pregnancy Resource Centers.
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
Emotions and decision rightness over five years following an abortion: An examination of decision difficulty and abortion stigma.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Patient-provider communication before and after implementation of the contraceptive decision support tool My Birth Control.
Patient education and counseling
The Health and Social Service Needs of Pregnant Women Who Consider but Do Not Have Abortions.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Interpreting the Truth: How People Make Sense of New Information about Abortion.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Coercing Women's Behavior: How a Mandatory Viewing Law Changes Patients' Preabortion Ultrasound Viewing Practices.
Journal of health politics, policy and law
An in-depth analysis of the use of shared decision making in contraceptive counseling.
Contraception
Young Women's Perspectives About the Contraceptive Counseling Received During Their Emergency Contraception Visit.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
The prevalence and impacts of crisis pregnancy center visits among a population of pregnant women.
Contraception
Talking about male body-based contraceptives: The counseling visit and the feminization of contraception.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Contesting and Differentially Constructing Uncertainty: Negotiations of Contraceptive Use in the Clinical Encounter.
Journal of health and social behavior
What Women Want from Their Health Care Providers about Pregnancy Options Counseling: A Qualitative Study.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Evaluating the impact of a mandatory pre-abortion ultrasound viewing law: A mixed methods study.
PloS one
More Than a Physical Burden: Women's Mental and Emotional Work in Preventing Pregnancy.
Journal of sex research
Policy Brief.
Journal of health and social behavior
The Stratified Legitimacy of Abortions.
Journal of health and social behavior
Doctors and Witches, Conscience and Violence: Abortion Provision on American Television.
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
Divergent Successes: What the Abortion Rights Movement Can Learn from Marriage Equality's Success.
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
What women seek from a pregnancy resource center.
Contraception
After After Tiller: the impact of a documentary film on understandings of third-trimester abortion.
Culture, health & sexuality
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC).
American journal of public health
Decision Rightness and Emotional Responses to Abortion in the United States: A Longitudinal Study.
PloS one
Constructing the meaning of ultrasound viewing in abortion care.
Sociology of health & illness
Beyond political claims: women's interest in and emotional response to viewing their ultrasound image in abortion care.
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
A qualitative analysis of approaches to contraceptive counseling.
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
Out-of-pocket costs and insurance coverage for abortion in the United States.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Telling stories about abortion: abortion-related plots in American film and television, 1916-2013.
Contraception
Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States
Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States
Relationship between ultrasound viewing and proceeding to abortion.
Obstetrics and gynecology
Who seeks abortions at or after 20 weeks?
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
Women's emotions one week after receiving or being denied an abortion in the United States.
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
Women's perspectives on ultrasound viewing in the abortion care context.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
How women anticipate coping after an abortion.
Contraception
A need to expand our thinking about "repeat" abortions.
Contraception
Social sources of women's emotional difficulty after abortion: lessons from women's abortion narratives.
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age
Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age
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