| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Abortion -- United States
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Pro-life movement -- United States
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Abortion services -- United States
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Medical policy.
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Health services accessibility.
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Politics, Practical.
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Abortion, Induced -- psychology
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Health Policy
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Health Services Accessibility
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Politics
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Public Opinion
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politics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Abortion & Birth Control.
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Abortion.
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Abortion services.
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Pro-life movement.
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0807035025 |
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9780807035023 |
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9780807035030 |
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0807035033 |
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1299561616 |
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9781299561618 |
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