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Dispatches from the Abortion Wars - 9780807035023

Un libro in lingua di Carole Joffe edito da Random House Inc, 2010

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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, 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.

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