| Author/Contributor(s): | Joffe, Carole |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Date: | 1/4/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.