Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis and author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Cost of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us and Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe V. Wade
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