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DESCRIPTION:Please join Revolution Books in welcoming Carole Joffe , as she discusses 
 her book:\nDispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to 
 Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us\n\n Carole Joffe has written an 
 important, shocking book, one that people who care about the lives of women 
 must check out!\n\nAfter thirty years embedded in reproductive-health 
 research, Joffe relays compelling testimony from doctors, health-care 
 workers, and patients as they struggle against these barriers that shame 
 women and marginalize physicians, even within the medical community. 
 Real-life stories include those of poverty-stricken rape victims 
 scrambling—and sometimes failing—to cover the cost of abortions that 
 should be covered by Medicaid; a doctor having to beg her superior for 
 permission to perform in-hospital a medical abortion too dangerous to 
 handle at a clinic; and a woman whose miscarriage is causing septic shock 
 refused care and bundled off to another hospital.\n\nJoffe’s book and 
 research continue to be ever more timely and the circumstances for women 
 around the world are both an outrage and an emergency.\n\nOn the occasion 
 of International Women’s Day, she wrote:\n\nAfter months of wrangling and 
 immense concessions from abortion rights supporters, abortion still has the 
 capacity to derail Congressional passage of a health reform bill, as some 
 House antiabortion legislators remain dissatisfied with the actually quite 
 onerous funding restrictions of the procedure in the Senate measure. A 
 woman in Nicaragua , the mother of a ten year old girl, is denied an 
 abortion even though she is a suffering from cancer, and is not allowed to 
 start chemotherapy as long as she is pregnant.\n\nAnd antiabortion fanatics 
 in state legislatures continue to pass laws that are truly hard to parody. 
 The latest of these is a Utah measure which would permitted life 
 imprisonment for a woman "whose intentional or reckless behavior" caused 
 the death of her fetus—if implemented, this bill which would have the 
 effect of making suspect every miscarriage occurring in that state. (Though 
 the bill passed in the Utah legislature, its sponsor withdrew it for 
 revision in the face of massive national criticism.\n\nIndeed, one of the 
 few genuine abortion parodies around-- the Onion's hilarious account of a 
 law requiring women seeking abortions to first name the baby and paint the 
 nursery-- is actually not that far removed from a real-life incident I 
 recount in my book, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars. In this case, a 
 pregnant woman with the life threatening condition of DVT (deep vein 
 thrombosis, a blood clot in the leg), was scheduled for an in-hospital 
 abortion. While hospitalized for a flare-up of her condition several days 
 before her abortion, she was forced by an anti-abortion doctor to tour the 
 newborn nursery!\n\n*****\n\nCarole 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 Francisco. 
 She is the author of several books, including Doctors of Conscience: The 
 Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/16/18648085.php
SUMMARY:Revolution Books presents, Carol Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425 Channing Way(in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue).Wheelchair accessible,donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/16/18648085.php
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