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Category: Carole Joffe
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The author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars looks at the most recent battles in reproductive health.
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A look at recent media featuring Beacon Press authors and books.
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Today's post is from Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us (forthcoming in early 2010). Joffe is professor of sociology at the University of California-Davis and a researcher at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California-San…
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While the healthcare debate rages on, Carole Joffe shares stories of women and families who have been affected by difficult health decisions and widely varying insurance coverage for medically necessary abortion.
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Carole Joffe looks at the myriad challenges women face in our current health care system and the ways Congress can level the playing field.
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Dr. Carole Joffe reflects on the work of Dr. George Tiller and his tragic murder.
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“Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a pregnant woman from averting her eyes from the ultrasound images required to be provided to and reviewed with her.” This is the “good news” of an egregious law recently passed in Oklahoma making ultrasounds mandatory for abortion patients. But though I read the law carefully…
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Fans of Jewish folklore are familiar with tales from the town of Chelm, the legendary center of foolishness. Chelm’s citizens unfailingly choose actions guaranteed to achieve the opposite of what was desired. The children need more milk? Buy a billy goat! The synagogue needs a new roof? Build a new floor! There has been much…
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by Carole Joffe "I haven’t sorted out the penalties…of course there’s got to be some penalties to enforce the law, whatever they may be." So spoke George H.W. Bush, in one of the major gaffes of his first presidential run in 1988, during a debate with his opponent, Michael Dukakis. Bush, who had only recently…
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