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Chicana use of abortion: the case of Alcala
Twice a minority : Mexican American women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 33-51
By: Urdaneta, Maria Lusia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Urdaneta, as part of a larger study on fertility regulation practices of two groups of Mexican American women -- the poor and the nonpoor -- collected and compared data on the use of nontherapeutic abortions by medically indigent Chicanas in a city in Texas which the author calls Alcala (a pseudonym). This study, which ran from 1973-1979, indicates that of the over 46 percent of reported unwanted pregnancies reported at the Model Cities Family Planning Cllinic in Alcala , all or nearly all of them have terminated in elective abortion procedures. This article also examines the '…structural factors of the health care delivery system …, and their role in facilitating or inhibiting Mexican American fertility regulations' (p. 35). Detailed information on abortion procedures at the Family Planning Clinics is described in the text, as well as brief biographical sketches of two Mexican American women who have undergone the abortion procedures.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Hospitals and clinics
- Conception
- Pregnancy
- Abortion and infanticide
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Nurse
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- April 1972-November 1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1973-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Alcala (a pseudonym), Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Maria Lusia Urdaneta
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 51)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80011177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans