Oral history interview with Carole Joffe, 2001

Biographical Note

Professor of Sociology

Scope and Contents

Struggles of doctors in pre-Roe v. Wade era; uncertain legal environment; alienation of doctors performing abortions; alternative abortion providers; different categories of abortion doctors; Alan Guttmacher and Therapeutic Abortion Committees; "San Francisco 9" case; policies of abortion committees and reactions; various struggles of abortion seekers; abortion figures; factors leading to criminalization of abortion in the U.S.; scenarios if Roe v. Wade overturned; current obstacles to abortion provision

Subjects

• Abortion--Law and legislation--United States.
• Abortion--United States.
• Abortion services--United States--History.
• Fly on the Wall Productions, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Joffe, Carole E.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Pro-choice movement--United States.
• Reproductive rights--United States.
• Sociologists--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH), 2001