Kumar A, Hessini L, Mitchell EMH, Conceptualizing Abortion Stigma, 2009: Culture, Health & Sexuality, Vol: 11, No: 6, p625-639

This paper conceptualizes how social and political processes favour the emergence, perpetuation and normalisation of abortion stigma and gives examples of how abortion stigma is generated through popular and medical discourses, government and political structures, institutions, communities and via personal interactions