COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic
COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic
复制标题
DOI：
10.1093/jlb/lsaa027
复制
发表时间：
2020-01-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Hodson, Nathan
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Romanis, Elizabeth Chloe;Parsons, Jordan A.;Hodson, Nathan
在本文中，我们考虑了COVID-19大流行对英国（GB）（英格兰，威尔士和苏格兰）和美国（US）堕胎护理的影响。这一流行病加剧了获得堕胎服务的问题，因为社交距离或封锁措施、日益增加的护理责任以及自我隔离的需要使诊所更加难以进入，而这正是诊所能够保持开放的时候，而许多诊所却不能。作为回应，我们认为有必要促进远程医疗早期药物流产，以确保获得必要的医疗保健的人需要终止。在英国部分地区和美国部分地区，建立远程医疗堕胎服务存在重大的法律的障碍。我们认为，在大流行期间，任何限制远程医疗用于基本医疗保健的行为都是不合理的侵犯人权行为，在美国是违宪的。
In this paper we consider the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on access to abortion care in Great Britain (GB) (England, Wales, and Scotland) and the United States (US). The pandemic has exacerbated problems in access to abortion services because social distancing or lockdown measures, increasing caring responsibilities, and the need to self-isolate are making clinics much more difficult to access, and this is when clinics are able to stay open which many are not. In response we argue there is a need to facilitate telemedical early medical abortion in order to ensure access to essential health care for people in need of terminations. There are substantial legal barriers to the establishment of telemedical abortion services in parts of GB and parts of the US. We argue that during a pandemic any restriction on telemedicine for basic healthcare is an unjustifiable human rights violation and, in the US, is unconstitutional.