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Abortion Attitudes and Availability

by Carole Joffe and Tracy A. Weitz | May 15, 2010 | Spring 2010

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, abortion remains one of the most contentious issues in American life. This article uses the murder of Dr. George Tiller to reflect on attitudes about abortion and declining access to abortion services.

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Carole Joffe is in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, and is the author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us.

Tracy A. Weitz is a sociologist in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at UCSF and works with the Bixby Center's Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health Program.

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