Abortion in the Age of Unreason: A Doctor’s Account of Caring for Women Before and After Roe V. Wade

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,

Warren M. Hern, M. D., is known to the public through his many appearances on CNN, Rachel Maddow/MSNBC; Sixty Minutes, and in the pages of The Atlantic Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, and dozens more media. A scientist, Hern wrote about the need for safe abortion services before the 1973 Roe V. Wade decision and was present at the first Supreme Court arguments. In his research and medical work, he pioneered since 1973 the modern safe practice of early and late abortion in his highly influential books and scholarship. A tireless national activist for women’s reproductive rights, he is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and holds a clinical appointment in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado medical center. He holds doctorates in medicine and epidemiology. Dr. Hern received the Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award and awards from the American Public Health Association for his scientific contributions and defense of reproductive freedom. He lives in Boulder with his wife and son.