Obstacle course : the everyday struggle to get an abortion in America / David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe.
2020
KF9315 .C64 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
Obstacle course : the everyday struggle to get an abortion in America / David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe.
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Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Description
281 pages ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: the turbulent state of abortion in America
Making the decision: coping with roadblocks, deception, and lies
Finding and getting to a clinic: hard to find, harder to reach
Coming up with the money
Getting in: medical clinics as war zones
Counseling at the clinic: government-mandated deceit
Waiting periods: logistical nightmares, potentially serious delays
The procedure: politics overrides medical expertise
An alternate vision: abortion as normal health care.
Making the decision: coping with roadblocks, deception, and lies
Finding and getting to a clinic: hard to find, harder to reach
Coming up with the money
Getting in: medical clinics as war zones
Counseling at the clinic: government-mandated deceit
Waiting periods: logistical nightmares, potentially serious delays
The procedure: politics overrides medical expertise
An alternate vision: abortion as normal health care.
Summary
"This book tells the real story of abortion in America, one that captures a disturbing reality of sometimes insurmountable barriers put in front of women trying to exercise their legal rights to medical services. Without the efforts of an unheralded army of doctors, nurses, social workers, activists, and volunteers, what is a legal right would be meaningless for the almost one million people per year who get abortions. There is a better way-treating abortion like any other form of health care-but the United States is a long way from that ideal"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Cohen, David S., 1972- Obstacle course. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Call Number
KF9315 .C64 2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780520306646 (cloth)
9780520973725 (ebook)
0520306643
9780520973725 (ebook)
0520306643
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