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This vivid account by a prominent doctor reports the challenges of offering and receiving abortion services through stories from the front lines-from protecting patients and staff from protesters' attacks to the dangers to women of restricted access to abortion services, and research in Latin America,
List of contents
Introduction: Abortion in the age of unreason 1 Terror on the labor deck 2 Abortion and public health in the Americas 3 Focus on family planning 4 Abortion becomes an issue in America 5 Making safe abortion real for women 6 "Please don't ever stop doing this." 7 Abortion in the seventies 8 Abortion politics and public policy in Colorado 9 Doing something radical in the most conservative way possible 10 Know the tree by its fruit 11 Anti-abortion violence: assassinations and stochastic terrorism 12 The illness of pregnancy 13 When is an egg not an egg? 14 Abortion and the Supreme Court 15 Partial truth abortion - or, political pornography for Republicans 16 The language of abortion - words matter 17 "First, kill all the doctors" 18 The international role of abortion in women's health and population growth 19 Choice comments 20 I can't wear a tank 21 Keep your paws off my pussy and your laws out of my uterus 22 The voices of women, their families, and those who help them 23 After
Dobbs and post-
Roe
About the author
Warren M. Hern, M.D., is known to the public through his many appearances on CNN, Rachel Maddow/MSNBC, Sixty Minutes, and in the pages of
The Atlantic Magazine,
New York Times,
Washington Post, and dozens more media. A scientist, Hern wrote about the need for safe abortion services before the 1973
Roe v. Wade decision and was present at the first Supreme Court arguments. In his research and medical work, he pioneered since 1973 the modern safe practice of early and late abortion in his highly influential books and scholarship. A tireless national activist for women's reproductive rights, he is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and holds a clinical appointment in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado medical center. He holds doctorates in medicine and epidemiology. Dr. Hern received the Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award and awards from the American Public Health Association for his scientific contributions and defense of reproductive freedom. He lives in Boulder with his wife and son.
Summary
This vivid account by a prominent doctor reports the challenges of offering and receiving abortion services through stories from the front lines—from protecting patients and staff from protesters’ attacks to the dangers to women of restricted access to abortion services, and research in Latin America,
