Abortion and Access in Prison - Maureen Mansfield, Kirsty Kitchen, Conor Murray,

Elsewhere in the UK the provision of abortion within prison is under- 1 The policies and guidelines are often written to only include women, which is the same for the collection of data. [...] Roth (2012) in examining the breadth of evidence Women in prison population within the US, determined that prisons were sites of reproductive injustice, where failure to The proportion of women in European prisons (as provide access to reproductive care is part of a a part of the total prison population) varies, the widespread pattern of institutional neglect, laden highest being Portugal with 8.1. [...] Of the few studies identified, meaning incarcerated people require the same based in the USA, the key findings include the standard of medical care as people living in the absence of clear policy regarding access to community. [...] women in prison, continues with inadequacies and results in the deaths of mothers and their Subsequently, a coroner’s inquest into the death of infants, garnering responses from reform groups, ‘Baby A’, stated that Aisha “arrived into the world raised public interest and attracted the attention in the most harrowing of circumstances” given of authorities (Bennett and Shuker, 2017). [...] Kraft-Stolar, T., (2015) Reproductive injustice: The state of reproductive health care for women in New York state prisons: A report of the women in prison project of the correctional association of New York.