Recent shifts in the abortion provision landscape have generated increased concern about how people find abortion care as regulations make abortion less accessible and clinics close. Few studies examine the reasons that people select particular facilities in such constrained contexts. Drawing from interviews with 41 Ohio residents, we find that people’s clinic selections are influenced by the risks they associate with abortion care. Participants’ strategies for selecting an abortion clinic included: drawing on previous experience with clinics, consulting others online, discerning reputation through name recognition and clinic type, and considering location, especially perceptions about place (privacy, legality, safety). We argue that social myths inform the risks people anticipate when seeking health care facilities, shaping care seeking in ways that are both abortion-specific and more general. These findings can also inform research in other health care contexts where patients increasingly find their options constrained by rising costs, consolidation, and facility closure.

最近堕胎条款的变化引起了人们对人们如何找到堕胎护理的担忧，因为法规使堕胎变得不那么容易获得，诊所也关闭了。很少有研究考察人们在这种受限环境中选择特定设施的原因。通过对 41 名俄亥俄州居民的采访，我们发现人们的诊所选择受到他们与堕胎护理相关的风险的影响。参与者选择堕胎诊所的策略包括：借鉴以前的诊所经验、在线咨询他人、通过名称识别和诊所类型来辨别声誉，以及考虑地点，尤其是对地点的看法（隐私、合法性、安全性）。我们认为，社会神话告知人们在寻求医疗保健设施时预期的风险，以针对堕胎和更普遍的方式塑造寻求护理。这些发现还可以为其他医疗保健环境中的研究提供信息，在这些环境中，患者越来越多地发现他们的选择受到成本上升、整合和设施关闭的限制。