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“The Last Piece of the Puzzle that Makes all the Difference in the World:” Team-Facing Medical-Legal Partnership for Reproductive Care Teams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2024

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Latisha Goulland
Griffin Jones
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COLLECTIVELY DETERMINED, ARLINGTON, MA, USA
Latisha Goulland
Affiliation:
INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND RECOVERY, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA
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Abstract

As reproductive freedoms in the U.S. undergo significant rollbacks, vital reproductive health services — and the care teams delivering them — face escalating legal threats and complexity. This qualitative case-control community-based participatory research study describes how legal problem-solving supports for reproductive care teams serving mothers with opioid use disorder are protective for both patients and care team members. We describe how medical legal partnerships (MLPs) can promote Reproductive Justice and argue for wider adoption of care-team facing legal supports.

Keywords

Medical-Legal PartnershipReproductive JusticeHealth EquitySubstance Use DisorderCommunity-BasedParticipatory Research
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Symposium Articles
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 51 , Issue 4: Medical-Legal Partnerships: Equity, Evaluation, and Evolution , Winter 2023 , pp. 865 - 873
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© 2024 The Author(s)

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