Abortion in the Age of Unreason

A Doctor's Account of Caring for Women Before and After Roe V. Wade

in English, 378 pages,
Routledge, September 30, 2024
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This vivid account by a prominent doctor reports the challenges of offering and receiving abortion services through stories from the front lines, from protecting patients and staff from protesters’ attacks to the dangers to women of restricted access to abortion services, and research in Latin America.

Dr. Hern – an abortion specialist, researcher, scholar, and highly visible public advocate –shows how abortion saves women’s lives given the many risks that arise during pregnancy – remarkably more than most people realize. He points to political and national solutions to reverse a reawakened crisis that now threatens democracy. Throughout the book, Dr. Hern shows how the current emergency was largely created by political actors who have exploited and distorted the abortion issue to increase and consolidate their power.