Publications

Research publications from the lab. For Dr. Paynter's complete list, visit marthapaynter.ca/publications or googlescholar.com/marthapaynter.

• 2026 McCloskey, R., Morris, P., McGill, A., Witherspoon, R., Gregg, E., Keeping-Burke, L., Pavlovic, E., Lauzier, K., Payne, J., Copeland, T., Paynter, M. Approaches used in Canadian academic institutions to keep nursing students safe during clinical practicia: a systematic review protocol of policy and expert opinion. JBI Evidence Synthesis.
• 2026 Heggie, C., Leblanc-Haley, T., Taylor, P., Paynter, M. Abolitionist Feminist Geography: A Framework for Investigating the Spatial Dimensions of Carceral Reproductive Injustice. Progress in Human Geography.
• 2026 Paynter, M., McLeod, A., Heggie, C., Goudreau, A. Mystery client methodologies to evaluate abortion care and access: A scoping review. Healthcare. Journal page ↗
• 2026 Abdulai, Abdul-Fatawu, Lamptey, Nadia, Paynter, Martha, Begun, Stephanie, Norman, Wendy V. Trauma-informed digital health engagement practices with trauma survivors seeking abortion services. Women's Reproductive Health.
• 2025 Paynter, M., Heggie, C. (2025). A Changing Landscape: A Comment on Abortion Services in the Maritime Provinces 2014-2024. Journal of New Brunswick Studies. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2026 Brown, C., Scott, H., McLeod, A., Paynter, M. Maternity hospital policies for care for people in prisons in Canada: A policy review. JOGC. Journal page ↗
• 2026 Kouyoumdjian, F., Paynter, M., Knudsen, E., et al. Estimating the number of children who experience parental incarceration in Canada using whole population administrative and vital statistics data.PLOS ONE. Journal page ↗
• 2026 Paynter, M., Heggie, C., McLeod, A., Norman, W.V. Frontline social service workers’ experiences supporting sexual and reproductive health of people who have been incarcerated. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
• 2026 Heggie, C., Paynter, M., McLeod, A., Liauw, J., Edwards, R., Kouyoumdjian, F. A cross-sectional survey of reproductive, gynecological, and breast health outcomes among people in a provincial prison for women in British Columbia. PLOS ONE. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2025 Paynter, M., Heggie, C., McLeod, A., Norman, W. A Qualitative Study of Abortion Professionals’ Perspectives on Doula Support. PLOS ONE. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2026 Heggie, C., Noonan, A., Fuller, C., McKibbon, S., & Paynter, M. Sexual and reproductive health experiences and outcomes of incarcerated women and gender diverse people in Australia: A scoping review. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2025Heggie, C., Bray, M., Paynter, M. Services for Women Leaving Prison in Canada: Results of a Brief Environmental Scan. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research. Journal page ↗
• 2025 Paynter, M., Norman, W. Canada leads international movement to enhance accessible, safe abortion services. Canadian Family Physician. Journal page ↗
• 2025 Paynter, M. & Norman, W. Le Canada à la tête d’un mouvement international en faveur de services d’avortement accessibles et sécuritaires. Canadian Family Physician. Journal page ↗
• 2025 Paynter, M., Heggie, C., McLeod, A., Norman, W. The experiences of family planning health professionals providing care to incarcerated patients: A qualitative study. BMJ Pregnancy and Childbirth. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2025 Paynter, M., Norman, W.V. Redefining abortion access in Canada- New Brunswick as a case study. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2025 Paynter, M., Heggie, C., Kouyoumdjian, F., Edwards, R., McLeod, A., Liauw, J. A cross-sectional survey of reproductive, gynecological, and breast health outcomes among people in provincial prisons for women in Atlantic Canada. JOGC. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2025 Owusu-Bempah, A., Lamberti, N., Croxford, R. Osei, B., Butler, A., Elwood Martin, R., Jurgutis, J., McLeod, K., Paynter, M., Sapers, H., Semeniuk, R., Kouyoumdjian, F. G. COVID-19 impacts on decarceration for Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study. The Lancet Regional Health- Americas. Journal page ↗
• 2025 Heggie, C., Fuller, C., Goudreau, A., & Paynter, M. Health outcomes and healthcare access experiences of incarcerated and recently released women in rural areas: A scoping review. The Journal of Rural Health. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2025 Paynter, M. Access to abortion in Canada. The Lancet Public Health. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2025Paynter, M. UK birth companions birth charter makes an impact on perinatal care in prisons. Evidence-Based Nursing. Journal page ↗
• 2024Paynter, M., Heggie, C., McLeod, A., Norman, W. Abortion and contraception within prison health care: A qualitative study. BMC Women’s Health. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2024Fuller, C., Tong, L., Paynter, M. Gender-affirming healthcare for incarcerated transgender and gender diverse people: An international scoping review. Journal of Transgender Health. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2024Heggie, C., Noonan, A., Paynter, M. Travel distances from institutions designated to detain women and girls to procedural (surgical) abortion facilities in Australia. Women’s Studies International Forum. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2025Paynter., M., Heggie, C., McLeod, A., Castonguay, M., Fuller, M., Norman, W. The role of doulas in abortion care in Canada: A qualitative study. PLOS ONE. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2024Paynter, M., & Heggie, C. Abortion and contraception policy in prisons in Canada. The Prison Journal. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2024Heggie, C., Paynter, M., Cowal, G. Doula practice in Canada: An environmental scan. Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2024Heggie, C., Tong, L., Heran, A., Bhambhani, I., McKibbon, S., & Paynter, M. The role of doulas and community birth workers in abortion and contraception care: An international scoping review. Contraception. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2023Paynter, M., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., & Tomblin Murphy, G. A qualitative case study of pregnancy and early parenting in Canada’s federal prisons for women. PLOS ONE. Journal page ↗
• 2023Heggie, C., Cowal, G., MacIntosh, C., Paynter, M. Supportive and affirming queer perinatal health care: A Qualitative Study. LGTBQ+ Family An Interdisciplinary Journal. Journal page ↗
• 2023Paynter, M. Prison is a barrier to high quality, comprehensive midwifery care. Evidence-based Nursing. Journal page ↗
• 2023Paynter, M., Heggie, C. Distance between institutions of incarceration and procedural abortion facilities in Canada. Contraception. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2023Paynter, M. Pinzon, P., Heggie, C., McKibbon, S., Munro, S. Abortion and Contraception for Incarcerated People: A Scoping Review. PLOS ONE. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2023Carson, A., Stirling Cameron, E., Paynter, M., Munro, S., Norman, W.V., Kilpatrick. K., Begun, S., Martin-Misener, R. Barriers and enablers to nurse practitioner implementation of medication abortion in Canada: A qualitative study. PLOS ONE. Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., & Norman, W.V. The intersection of abortion and criminalization: abortion access for people in prisons. Seminars in Reproductive Medicine. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., & Sauve, C. Caring for the Peripartum Patient Experiencing Incarceration. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., Jones, E. & Dryden, O. Gender, health and (in)justice in Canada: An Introduction. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., Heggie, C., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., & Tomblin Murphy, G. Advocates’ Perspectives on the Canadian Prison Mother Child Program. Social Science and Medicine Qualitative Research in Health. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., Tomblin Murphy, G. The Correctional Services Canada Institutional Mother Child Program: A Look at the Numbers. The Prison Journal. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2022Carson, A., Stirling Cameron, E., Paynter, M., Norman, W., Munro, S., & Martin-Misener, R. Nurse practitioners on “the leading edge” of medication abortion care: A feminist qualitative approach. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., Heggie, C., Low, C., McKibbon, S., Martin-Misener, R. Community-based models of health care for women, trans and nonbinary people released from prisons: A Scoping Review. Journal of Clinical Nursing. Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., Heggie, C., Matheson, L., Rillie, C., Beals, D., Bray, M. Maternal Incarceration in a Provincial Prison: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., Jefferies., K., Carrier, L., & Goshin, L. Feminist Abolitionist Nursing. Advances in Nursing Science. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M. (2022) Gender and the privatization of public responsibility for vaccination. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Journal page ↗
• 2022Paynter, M., LeBlanc, D., Yoshida, L., Finlayson, A., Turtle, K., Brown, M., Blennerhassett, C.J., Graham, L. Implementation of an Interprofessional Health Education Course on Abortion Care. Journal of Teaching and Learning in Nursing. Journal page ↗
• 2021Aston, Megan, Price, Sheri, Paynter, Martha, Sim, Meaghan, Monaghan, Joelle, Jefferies, Keisha, & Ollivier, Rachel. Navigating a Sea of Disasters: A Discourse Analysis of Women’s Experiences with Child Protection Services. Nursing Reports. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2021Carson, A., Paynter, M., Norman, W., Munro, S., Roussel, J., Dunn, S., Bryant-Lukosius, D., Martin-Misener, R. Optimizing the nurse role in abortion care. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership. Journal page ↗
• 2021Paynter, M., Matheson, L., McVicar, L., Jefferies, K., Gebre, K., Marshall, P., Zylstra, G., MacEachern, D., Thomas, L., Palliser-Nicholas, F. Peer Doula Support Training for Black and Indigenous Groups in Nova Scotia, Canada: A Community-Based Qualitative Study. Public Health Nursing. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2021Paynter, M., Heggie, C., McKibbon, S., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., Tomblin Murphy, G. Sexual and reproductive health outcomes among incarcerated women in Canada: A scoping review. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2020Paynter, M.J., Bagg, M.L., & Heggie, C. Invisible women: Carceral facilities for women and girls across Canada and proximity to maternal health care. International Journal of Prisoner Health. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2020Paynter, M., Jefferies, K., & Carrier, L. Nurses for Police and Prison Abolition. Public Health Nursing. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2020Paynter, M., Jefferies, K., McKibbon, S., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., Tomblin Murphy, G. Mother Child Programs for Incarcerated Mothers and Children and Associated Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review. Nursing Leadership. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2019Paynter, M., Norman, W. & Martin-Misener, R. (2019). Nurses are Key Members of the Abortion Care Team: Why aren’t Schools of Nursing Teaching Abortion Care? Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2019Paynter, M., & Snelgrove-Clarke, E. “Breastfeeding in public” for incarcerated women: the baby-friendly steps. International Breastfeeding Journal. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2019Paynter, M., Drake, E., Cassidy, C., & Snelgrove-Clarke, E. Maternal Health Outcomes for Incarcerated Women: A Scoping Review. Journal of Clinical Nursing. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2019Paynter, M. Medication and Facilitation of Transgender Women’s Lactation. Journal of Human Lactation. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2018Paynter, M. Clinical Opinion Letters Regarding Breastfeeding and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome for Child Apprehension Family Court Proceedings. Journal of Human Lactation. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2018Paynter, M. Policy and Legal Protection for Breastfeeding and Incarcerated Women in Canada. Journal of Human Lactation. Full PDF Journal page ↗
• 2017Paynter, M., & Snelgrove-Clarke, E. Breastfeeding Support for Criminalized Women in Canada. Journal of Human Lactation. Full PDF Journal page ↗