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Dispatches from the abortion wars, the costs of fanaticism to doctors, patients, and the rest of us, Carole Joffe

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Dispatches from the abortion wars, the costs of fanaticism to doctors, patients, and the rest of us, Carole Joffe
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-183) and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Dispatches from the abortion wars
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bibliography
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319126636
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Carole Joffe
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the costs of fanaticism to doctors, patients, and the rest of us
Summary
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
Table Of 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
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