Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
When research for this report was first initiated, it was intended to answer a narrow question: is abortion care restricted at historically Protestant hospitals in the U.S. South? Strict limits on access to abortion at Catholic hospitals — and the ways in which this can obstruct and delay even emergency medical care — are already well documented in legal and medical literature and news media. In contrast, restrictions at Protestant hospitals have not been extensively studied and are not well understood. Our research sought to fill this gap in knowledge. We focused on the U.S. South because Catholic hospitals are less concentrated in the South than in other regions (especially the Midwest and Pacific Northwest), leaving Protestant hospitals to play a potentially larger role in the delivery of medical care.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Women's Health
Center/Program
Center for Gender & Sexuality Law
Recommended Citation
Elizabeth R. Platt, Katherine M. Franke, Candace Bond-Theriault & Amy Littlefield,
The Southern Hospitals Report,
(2021).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3928
Executive Summary