Prenatal Care for Undocumented Immigrants: Professional Norms, Ethical Tensions, and Practical Workarounds

Rachel E Fabi¹, Holly A Taylor¹

• ¹Rachel E. Fabi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. She received her B.A. from Yale University in New Haven, CT, and her Ph.D. in health policy and management with a concentration in bioethics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Fabi works at the intersection of bioethics and public health policy, and her research focuses on access to health care for non-citizens. Holly A. Taylor, Ph.D., M.P.H., was Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM), Bloomberg School of Public Health and Core Faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD when this work was completed. Dr. Taylor received her B.A. from Stanford University, her M.P.H. from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in health policy with a concentration in bioethics from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Taylor is trained as a social scientist and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore topics in the ethics of human subject research and ethical considerations in public health approaches to infectious disease.