Dispatches from the Abortion Wars
  • Published: 1 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9780807001288
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $36.00

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars

The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

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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, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigma—cultivated by the religious right—operates to maintain barriers to access by shaming women and marginalizing abortion providers. Through compelling testimony from doctors, health-care workers, and patients, Joffe reports the lived experiences behind the polemics, while also offering hope for a more compassionate standard of women’s health care.
  • Published: 1 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9780807001288
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $36.00
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Praise for Dispatches from the Abortion Wars

"Carole Joffe has given us a rare and privileged look into the beleaguered world of abortion providers. I found their determination inspiring--and Joffe's level-headed perspective deeply clarifying."--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

"No one knows more about reproductive rights in the United States than Carole Joffe. This indispensable book shows how, more than a quarter century after Roe v. Wade, abortion access is being eroded from many different directions. Its portrayal of the human toll of the abortion wars is both harrowing and galvanizing."--Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction

"This scholarly yet clear and well-paced reportage from the front will stir as it encourages debate."
-- Whitney Scott, Booklist

"Instructive and memorable."--Emily Bazelon of Slate.com