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.Preface 1 The Stigma of Abortion 2 “You Need a Community with You”: Becoming an Abortion Provider 3 The Clinics: Ground Zero in the Abortion Wars 4 Regulating Abortion 5 Hospital-Based Abortions: Chaos, Cruelty, and Some Accommodation 6 Abortion Patients and the “Two Americas” of Reproductive Health 7 “Every Woman Is Different”: What Good Abortion Care Looks Like 8 What Kind of America Do We Want? Afterword: “Abortion Is a Perfectly Proper Noun” Postscript The Legacy of George Tiller Acknowledgments Notes Index   “No one knows more about reproductive rights in the United States than Carole Joffe. This indispensable book . . . is both harrowing and galvanizing.”—Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction   “Terrific—clear, terse, and full of things you need to know.”—Katha Pollitt, author ofl3e
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