Carole Joffe

Carole Joffe is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is co-author of a forthcoming book, Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America.

The Republican Candidates’ Abortion Problem

Carole Joffe

Bush's legacy on sexual and reproductive policies is so egregious that there is a real opening to expose the extent to which the Republican party is out of step with mainstream values of the American electorate.

Shakespeare’s Sister and Jamie Lynn’s Abortion

Carole Joffe

Carol Joffe examines Jamie Lynn Spears choice to carry her now celebrity-pregnancy to term against the backdrop of a society that stigmatizes abortion as an option.

Et Tu, Democrats?! Ab-Only and the Budget

Carole Joffe

Democrats supporting "abstinence-only," even after the November 2006 election? No, this is not a Saturday Night Live or Jon Stewart parody. This is Washington politics.

Groveling for Choice: What Good Doctors Will Do

Carole Joffe

The negotiations that physicians have to undertake with hospital administrators, insurance executives, and other doctors give us window into the chaotic and Kafkaesque world that is contemporary abortion provision, even as Roe remains technically legal.

Reproductive Health Goes Environmental

Carole Joffe

Both the reproductive health and the environmental justice communities operate in a political climate in which the integrity of science is under attack.

Bush and SCHIP: It’s Also About Fetuses

Carole Joffe

Republican Senators Orrin Hatch and Chuck Grassley have "implored" George Bush not to follow through with his promised veto of the expansion of SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Carole Joffe

The Republican Candidates’ Abortion Problem

Shakespeare’s Sister and Jamie Lynn’s Abortion

Et Tu, Democrats?! Ab-Only and the Budget

Groveling for Choice: What Good Doctors Will Do

Reproductive Health Goes Environmental

Bush and SCHIP: It’s Also About Fetuses

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