Dispatches from the Abortion Wars

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Dispatches from the Abortion Wars is written by Carole Joffe and published by Beacon Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807035033 (ISBN 10) and 9780807035030 (ISBN 13).

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.