Dispatches from the Abortion Wars The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

Name: Dispatches from the Abortion Wars The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us
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ISBN: 9780807001288

ISBN-10: 0807001287

ISBN-13: 9780807001288

Edition: 2011

Authors: Carole Joffe

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Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access While "abortion wars" may bring to mind the very real threat of anti-abortion violence, this timely book shows how a pervasive stigma-cultivated by the religious right-operates less dramatically but just as effectively to impede access by shaming women and marginalizing abortion providers in their own professional communities. InDispatches from the Abortion Wars,reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe immerses readers in on-the-ground stories of doctors grappling with the obstacles of providing abortion care for their patients, while also…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 1/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Joffee is professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis.



Preface



The Stigma of Abortion



"You Need a Community with You": Becoming an Abortion Provider



The Clinics: Ground Zero in the Abortion Wars



Regulating Abortion



Hospital-Based Abortions: Chaos, Cruelty, and Some Accommodation



Abortion Patients and the "Two Americas" of Reproductive Health



"Every Woman Is Different": What Good Abortion Care Looks Like



What Kind of America Do We Want?


Afterword: "Abortion Is a Perfectly Proper Noun"


Postscript The Legacy of George Tiller


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index