Self-Managed Abortion & Autonomy in Medicine with Dr. Leslie Hoggart

Tomorrow, Today

In this episode of Tomorrow, Today, we discuss self-managed abortions, medical biases in training, and the changes that are being demanded by medical students around abortion training and abortion care. How does the medical infrastructure in industrialized countries continue to fail people in need of abortion, and where does self-managed abortion fit into the conversation?

Dr. Leslie Hoggart is Associate Head of School (research excellence) in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at the Open University as part of Oxford University. She specialises in qualitative research, and spent many years working in the qualitative research group at the Policy Studies Institute. Her research interests are focused on reproductive health, abortion policy and politics, teenage pregnancy and sexual health.