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Under conditions of legal crisis, stigma, and trauma, conventional information practice frameworks prove insufficient, as abortion-related information seeking and sharing on Reddit function as co-constitutive, storytelling-driven practices that form a trauma-informed community of care. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.CONTRADICTORY. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine the abortion-related health information practices pregnant individuals engaged in on Reddit surrounding the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling.

September 8, 2026Journal of Documentation

“Be patient and kind to yourself!!” Abortion-related health information practices on Reddit in the age of Dobbs v. Jackson

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APAlex H. PooleDrexel University APAria PessianzadehDrexel University RRRezvaneh RezapourDrexel University

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Qualitative case study reveals mutual information seeking and sharing in pregnant individuals on Reddit, highlighting peer-led virtual care communities formed under legal uncertainty.

Key Points

To examine the abortion-related health information practices pregnant individuals engaged in on Reddit surrounding the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling.
Conducted a directed qualitative content analysis on 188 purposively sampled posts from four subreddits across a 12-month period spanning the Dobbs decision.
Screened an initial set of 400 posts and applied theoretically derived and inductive coding categories across four domains, establishing high intercoder reliability.
Information seeking and sharing functioned as co-constitutive practices structured by temporal milestones across the overall abortion trajectory.
Posters simultaneously navigated information richness and poverty through protective and defensive strategies, challenging standard hierarchies between medical knowledge and bodily experience.
Storytelling centered on self-disclosure, catharsis, and counter-narratives facilitated recursive sensemaking and fostered a trauma-informed virtual community of care.

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Poole et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd7c658e84d0ff5b46d19 https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-05-2026-0302

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September 8, 2026Journal of Documentation

“Be patient and kind to yourself!!” Abortion-related health information practices on Reddit in the age of Dobbs v. Jackson

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Authors

APAlex H. PooleDrexel University APAria PessianzadehDrexel University RRRezvaneh RezapourDrexel University

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Overview

Qualitative case study reveals mutual information seeking and sharing in pregnant individuals on Reddit, highlighting peer-led virtual care communities formed under legal uncertainty.

Key Points

To examine the abortion-related health information practices pregnant individuals engaged in on Reddit surrounding the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling.
Conducted a directed qualitative content analysis on 188 purposively sampled posts from four subreddits across a 12-month period spanning the Dobbs decision.
Screened an initial set of 400 posts and applied theoretically derived and inductive coding categories across four domains, establishing high intercoder reliability.
Information seeking and sharing functioned as co-constitutive practices structured by temporal milestones across the overall abortion trajectory.
Posters simultaneously navigated information richness and poverty through protective and defensive strategies, challenging standard hierarchies between medical knowledge and bodily experience.
Storytelling centered on self-disclosure, catharsis, and counter-narratives facilitated recursive sensemaking and fostered a trauma-informed virtual community of care.

Cite This Study

Poole et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd7c658e84d0ff5b46d19 https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-05-2026-0302

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