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Rishita Nandagiri1, Ernestina Coast2, Joe Strong3
1ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, r.nandagiri@lse.ac.uk.
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COVID-19 has compromised and disrupted sexual and reproductive health (SRH) across multiple dimensions: individual-level access, health systems functioning, and at the policy and governance levels. Disruptions to supply chains, lockdown measures and travel restrictions, and overburdened health systems have particularly affected abortion access and service provision. The pandemic, rather than causing new issues, has heightened and exposed existing fractures and fissures within abortion access and provision. In this viewpoint, we draw on the concept of "structural violence" to make visible the contributing causes of these ruptures and their inequitable impact among different groups.
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