Review of international anthology about women traveling for abortion

Prof. Hannah Haksgaard of the University of South Dakota Law School has just published a book review in the South Dakota Law Review.  Her review is of Abortion Across Borders:  Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services (Christabell Sethna and Gayle Davis, eds. 2019).  Here's the abstract Haksgaard posted on ssrn.com:

This is a book review of "Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services" by Christabell Sethna and Gayle Davis (2019). The book review focuses on rural women and the particular barriers they face in accessing abortions.

Here is Prof. Haksgaard's key observation (from my standpoint, at least):

Although Abortion across Borders includes many important points, there is one noticeable shortcoming: Abortion across Borders lacks an explicit discussion of rural women throughout most of the book. The rest of this book review draws common rural-based themes out of the essays and posits that, in addition to the five arguments identified by Sethna, there is a sixth argument in Abortion across Borders: that rurality matters when discussing abortion travel. In summarizing the arguments made in the book, Sethna makes the intersectional argument that “un-even access to abortion services in local healthcare jurisdictions reinforces or exacerbates discrimination by gender, race, class, sexuality, age, and region.” An unfortunate omission from this list is rurality.  (emphasis added)

Haksgaard closes with this, referencing Lori A. Brown's contribution to the anthology:  

Brown’s proposal provides a possible solution to the issue that Abortion across Borders highlights: the burden of travel guarantees many women do not have equal access to abortion services and there are women around the world that “we must not forget: those women from rural areas and smaller cities” who face even more difficult paths to accessing abortion services.  (emphasis added)

Here's a description of Sethna and Davis's book, which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press: 

Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, attempt self-induced abortions, or even travel to less restrictive states, provinces, and countries to receive care. 

Abortion across Borders focuses on travel across domestic and international boundaries to terminate a pregnancy. Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis have gathered a cadre of authors to examine how restrictive policies force women to move both within and across national borders in order to reach abortion providers, often at great expense, over long distances and with significant safety risks. Taking historical and contemporary perspectives, contributors examine the situation in regions that include Texas, Prince Edward Island, Ireland, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Eastern Europe. 

Throughout, they take a feminist intersectional approach to transnational travel and access to abortion services that is sensitive to inequalities of gender, race, and class in reproductive health care. 

This multidisciplinary volume raises challenging logistical, legal, and ethical questions while exploring the gendered aspects of medical tourism. A noticeable rollback of reproductive rights and renewed attention to border security in many parts of the world will make Abortion across Borders of timely interest to scholars of gender and women's studies, health, medicine, law, mobility studies, and reproductive justice.