<b>Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access</b><br> <b> </b><br> While “abortion wars” may bring to mind the very real threat of anti-abortion violence, this timely book shows how a pervasive stigma—cultivated by the religious right—operates less dramatically but just as effectively to impede access by shaming women and marginalizing abortion providers in their own professional communities. <br>  <br> In <i>Dispatches from the Abortion Wars,</i> reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe immerses readers in on-the-ground stories of doctors grappling with the obstacles of providing abortion care for their patients, while also offering hope for a more compassionate standard of women's health care.