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Category: Doctors of Conscience
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By Carole Joffe and David S. Cohen: Abortion is many things in America. Divisive. Politicized. A fact of life. It is also, in the world of health care, unique. Part of what makes abortion provision unique is that it happens amid relentless efforts to create as many obstacles to it as possible. The preternatural determination…
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By Carole Joffe: The prospect of the overturn of Roe v. Wade—which the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation struggle over Judge Neil Gorsuch is highlighting—is terrifying to many, especially to those who remember the notorious pre-Roe days. It is also a real possibility, should President Donald Trump have the opportunity for another nomination, one that would…
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By Carole Joffe Many who celebrated the success of the recent worldwide Women’s Marches—record-breaking numbers, wonderful esprit, and their peacefulness—were also gratified by the significant participation of men in the women-led events. This widely noted involvement of men in the marches prompted me to think of another important example of men supporting the aspirations of…
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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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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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