Cynthia Beavin

Cynthia is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. After graduating with a BARSC in global sexual and reproductive health from the University of South Carolina in 2017, they worked for over four years the the Guttmacher Institute. There, they contributed to projects estimating the global incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy, describing trends in adolescent sexual activity, and documenting barriers to family planning services in Iowa and Arizona. At UC, Cynthia earned an MA in sociology with their thesis research focused on lay conceptualizations of unintended pregnancy compared with the National Survey of Family Growth’s categorization of pregnancy intentions. Cynthia studies medical sociology, reproduction, and the sociology of knowledge. Their current research focuses on how unintended pregnancy is constructed as a social problem and policy objective. Cynthia works as a graduate research assistant with the Ohio Policy Evaluation Project on several projects, including qualitative analyses of people’s experiences seeking abortion post-Dobbs and quantitative and mixed methods research on issues with abortion data quality and trends in abortion utilization in West Virginia following several legal restrictions.