Research & Writing
Society of Family Planning Research Practice Support: Digital and Data Security for Abortion Research in a Post-Dobbs Era— A Primer for Qualitative Researchers
Melissa Madera, Amanda Bennett, Kate Bertash, Erica Cahill.
Contraception, 111208, September 2025. Society of Family Planning Research Practice Supports.
Navigating “regulatory fog”: Challenges to rigorous abortion research after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision
Elizabeth A. Mosley, Lucrecia Mena-Meléndez, Heather Gould, Lee Hasselbacher, Melissa Madera, Heidi Moseson, Jane Whitman Seymour.
Contraception, Volume 144, April 2025.
Factors Associated With Knowledge and Experience of Self-managed Abortion Among Patients Seeking Care at 49 US Abortion Clinics
Abigail R.A. Aiken, Luisa Alejandra Tello-Pérez, Melissa Madera, Jennifer E Starling, Dana M Johnson, Kathleen Broussard, Elisa Padron, Carol Armelle Ze-Noah, Aleta Baldwin, James G Scott.
JAMA Network Open, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2023).
Experiences seeking, sourcing, and using abortion pills at home in the United States through an online telemedicine service
Melissa Madera, Dana M. Johnson, Kathleen Broussard, Luisa Alejandra Tello-Pérez, Carol-Armelle Ze-Noah, Aleta Baldwin, Rebecca Gomperts, Abigail R.A. Aiken
Social Science & Medicine - Qualitative Research in Health, Volume 2, April 2022
U.S. Abortion Care Providers’ Perspectives on Self-Managed Abortion
Aleta Baldwin, Dana M. Johnson, Kathleen Broussard, Luisa Alejandra Tello-Pérez, Melissa Madera, Carol-Armelle Ze-Noah, Elisa Padron, Abigail R.A. Aiken
Qualitative Health Research, March 2022, Vol. 32(5) 788–799.
The economic context of pursuing online medication abortion in the United States
Dana M. Johnson, Melissa Madera, Rebecca Gomperts, Abigail R.A. Aiken
Social Science & Medicine - Qualitative Research in Health, Volume 1, December 2021
The Abortion Diary: Uncovering, Sharing and Listening to the Archive We Hold within Our Bodies
Abortion in the United States: A Reference Handbook (published July 2018)
Edited by Dorothy E. McBride and Jennifer L. Keys
6 Women Share Their Harrowing Stories of Illegal Abortion Before Roe v. Wade
Melissa Madera
Vice / Broadly | January 22, 2018
I Talked To 200 Women Who Had Abortions—Here's My Letter To Congress
Melissa Madera
SELF | January 30, 2017
Archiving Abortion: Sharing One Story At A Time
Melissa Madera
Nursing Clio | January 15, 2015