I am in the analysis and writing phase of the project, called “Abortion on the Move: Navigating the Fractured Reproductive Healthcare Landscape,” which explores how race, class, and nationality shape abortion access in the post-Dobbs era in the United States.

Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) Supreme Court ruling in the US, twenty-one states have introduced abortion restrictions or outright bans that reduce reproductive care access for all pregnant people. This has disproportionately impacted lower-income and racially marginalized women, who are both most likely to seek out abortions and face the greatest structural barriers to access. This project draws on 52 professional informant interviews and 194 interviews with vulnerable abortion seekers who live in states with restrictive access and analyzes three distinct pathways to care: traveling out-of-state to clinics; using telemedicine abortion medication; self-managing abortions at home with pills from a community network. Data collection occurred from Spring 2024 through Summer 2025 in partnership with Midwest Access Coalition, Aid Access, and a prominent anonymous community network.

I argue that abortion occupies the medico-legal borderlands, where medical and criminal rationalities overlap. I analyze the nexus of state and medical control of reproduction, its reconfiguration under Dobbs, and the ways in which marginalized women forge new networks and epistemic strategies to navigate the increasingly fractured reproductive landscape. My current analytic directions for the project include how abortion seekers mobilize impersonal networks to find and legitimate abortion pathways, a field analysis of how abortion organizations produce an infrastructure of access in the interstices of fragmented systems, and the overdetermined failures of social reproduction that abortion seekers experience at the intersections of healthcare, welfare, and criminal-legal landscapes.