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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Carole Joffe |
ISBN: | 0807001287 9780807001288 9780807035023 0807035025 |
OCLC Number: | 693156958 |
Description: | xvi, 196 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Preface -- 1: Stigma of abortion -- 2: You need a community with you: becoming an abortion provider -- 3: Clinics: ground zero in the abortion wars -- 4: Regulating abortion -- 5: Hospital-based abortions: chaos, cruelty, and some accommodation -- 6: Abortion patients and the "two Americas" of reproductive health -- 7: Every woman is different: what good abortion care looks like -- 8: What kind of America do we want? -- Afterword: Abortion is a perfectly proper noun -- Postscript: Legacy of George Tiller -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
Responsibility: | Carole Joffe. |
Abstract:
From the Publisher: Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access. More than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, stories of limited access to abortion are still familiar; yet most people have little idea of just how inaccessible it has become. While a majority of Americans support safe and legal abortion, the pervasive stigma-cultivated by the religious right-continues to shame women and marginalize abortion providers in their own professional communities. Reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe has studied abortion provision for more than thirty years. In Dispatches from the Abortion Wars, she relays on-the-ground stories of doctors grappling with the obstacles of providing abortion care for their patients: from skirting draconian state regulations to negotiating with intransigent insurance companies or having to beg superiors for the right to perform medically necessary abortions in-hospital. Joffe brings these examples to vivid life, reporting the lived experiences behind the polemics. Dispatches from the Abortion Wars also offers hope for real change, pointing the way to a more compassionate standard of women's health care-one that responds to the needs of the individual and trusts women to make their own moral choices.
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