Articles by Grace Riley

October 8, 2025

🌈 Abortion rights and the cost of compromise

Grace Riley

Abortion rights advocates in hostile environments face difficult choices. Clare Daniel, Anna Mitchell Mahoney and Grace Riley’s research in Louisiana shows how traditional advocacy approaches fail to sway legislators, while attempts to communicate across differences risk long-term consequences. Gender scholarship must contend with the dilemma of sacrificing broader goals for smaller, immediate impacts in increasingly constrained political landscapes

Grace Riley

Medical Student (MD Candidate), Rush Medical College, Rush University

Grace received her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where she conducted research with the Newcomb Institute and the Violence Prevention Institute.

Her work focuses on the integration of clinical care with public health, policy, and social justice, particularly in the areas of reproductive, maternal, and child health.

Grace's research has been published in JAMA Network Open, American Journal of Public Health, Social Sciences, and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.

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