Lindsay Cannon was selected to receive a Society of Family Planning Emerging Scholar grant to help fund research for her dissertation, “Abortion restrictions and pregnancy decision-making among people with the capacity for pregnancy with chronic health conditions.”
Lindsay is a mixed methods scholar and social demographer interested in understanding how adverse early life experiences, such as poor health and relationship violence, interact with the social patterning of the life course to affect reproductive health and educational outcomes. For her mixed methods dissertation, Lindsay is investigating the childbearing patterns of people with the capacity for pregnancy who have chronic health conditions and how they make decisions about pregnancy and parenting in light of social, structural, medical, and political constraints. As an Emerging Scholar in Family Planning, Lindsay will investigate how people with the capacity for pregnancy with chronic conditions perceive abortion restrictions and how these restrictions impact their pregnancy decision-making. Her dissertation project, which includes the current study, will provide critical evidence to inform clinical recommendations for care that is patient-centered and reproductive justice-focused among people with chronic health conditions.