Rachel Scott

@rachelhvscott.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @LSHTM: sexual and reproductive health and rights | abortion | young people | digital intimacies

New paper by Rosa Mackay exploring how people in Britain find and use online sources of information about abortion. An excellent MSc thesis crafted into a thoughtful article 🎉

Population Studies Group, LSHTM@psglshtm.bsky.social · last yr.

Our MSc RSHR alum Rosa Mackay has just published her MSc dissertation! 🎉 Co-authored with PSG members @rachelhvscott.bsky.social and Melissa Palmer, the paper explores how people in Britain find and use online information during the abortion process. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very excited to share that I'll be part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase. ICA London will be screening Celina Escher's documentary Fly So Far on Wed 18 Jun 2025 at 18:45, after which journalist Divya Talwar and I will talk all things abortion.

UK Premiere - Fly So Far

This is the UK premier of documentary Fly So Far, which follows Teodora and The Seventeen in their struggle to regain their freedom from prison in El Salvador. Due to the criminalisation of abortion, ...

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In this new study, we estimate that >2/3 of girls ages 13-17 live in states with abortion bans, restrictive gestational limits or parental involvement requirements. That's 7 million teens unable to control their lives and their futures jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Implications of Abortion Restrictions for Adolescents

This cross-sectional study examines the proportion of the adolescent population potentially facing barriers to abortion access owing to 3 types of state restrictions in the US.

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Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe is out today! Buy it wherever books are sold (but preferable from your local bookseller). I'm going to talk here about some of the selections I'm most excited were included.

Abortion Stories: 9780143138204 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of abortion representation in American literature before Roe v. Wade that compellingly proclaims: when abortion is illegal, women’s lives are always more precari...

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New research is out today! We interviewed 30 patients who had telehealth abortions. By reducing various logistical hurdles and the potential of stigma at a clinic, telehealth mitigates what call structural abortion stigma.

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