Carole E. Joffe is an American sociologist and

reproductive rights Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world. The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on t ...

advocate who has published several books on

abortion Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pregn ...

. In 2013, she was awarded the Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award for her research on the sociology of abortion and

family planning Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Things that may play a role on family planning decisions include marita ...

. She has also earned the UC Davis Public Service Award (2006), the Irwin Kushner Lecture by the

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) was a non-profit organization founded in 1963 by Alan Frank Guttmacher. It was a membership association of nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, pharmacists, physician assistants, physici ...

(2010), and the David Gunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the

Abortion Care Network Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pregn ...

(2015).

Life

Joffe earned her Ph.D. from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. She is a professor emerita at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

, and currently a professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at ANSIRH (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health), part of the University of California, San Francisco.

Publications

* ''Friendly Intruders: Childcare Professionals and Family Life'' (1977) * ''The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers'' (1986) * ''Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v Wade'' (1996) * ''Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us'' (2009)

References

American sociologists American women scientists American women sociologists University of California, Davis faculty University of California, San Francisco faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-sociologist-stub