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Category: Dispatches from the Abortion Wars
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In some ways, the profile of Robert Lewis Dear, the man who was arrested for a shooting rampage at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday, is similar to that of the other six individuals who have been charged with abortion-related murders in the past two decades. But unlike them, Dear does not…
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By Carole Joffe Photo credit: Flickr user kaibara87 This article appeared originally in RH Reality Check. Imagine if the next debate among the Republican presidential candidates started with the moderator asking all the participants who are parents to raise their hands if their children received the polio vaccine as infants. Then the candidates should be…
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By Carole Joffe Photo credit: Flickr user Fibonacci Blue This blog piece appeared originally on RH Reality Check As reproductive politics are once again consumed by an attack on Planned Parenthood, it is worth stepping back and asking why this organization is so particularly reviled by the anti-choice movement. This is a demonization that goes…
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Reproductive rights advocate Dr. Carole Joffe reveals the hidden costs of TRAP laws and ASC regulations for abortion providers and their patients.
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Women’s reproductive health advocate Carole Joffe reflects on the recent Hobby Lobby SCOTUS ruling and who, ultimately, pays the price for such setbacks in contraceptive policy.
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Dr. Carole Joffe—author of ‘Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v Wade’ and ‘Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us’—remembers Dr. George Tiller, the late-term abortion provider who was assassinated five years ago, and examines the abortion situation in…
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Conservative mouthpiece Phyllis Schlafly recently claimed that the best way to improve women’s economic prospects is to pay men more. Dr. Carole Joffee, author of ‘Doctors of Conscience’ and ‘Dispatches from the Abortion Wars,’ explains just how wrong Schlafly is.
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After vandals destroyed abortion provider Susan Cahill’s clinic, author and advocate Carole Joffe remember’s Cahill’s incredible contributions to abortion care in the US.
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Because of all the ramifications of the abortion wars in this country, U.S. providers have become de facto social workers, fundraisers, and travel agents, to name just a few of their ancillary roles. Dr. Carole Joffe shows us a hidden side of the abortion issue.
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