News and publicationsIncludes several bibliographies, one of which concerns Dr. Hern's epidemiologic research among the Shipibo of the Peruvian Amazon, and another which includes Dr. Hern's publications on "Population, environment, and ecology".
*Abortion in the Age of UnreasonOctober 16, 2024, Book release and signing event, Boulder CO (
C-Span BookTV recording)
January 25, 2023, Book release and signing event, Boulder CO (
C-Span BookTV recording)
Jia Tolentino (
bio),
The New Yorker, September 29, 2024.
The New Yorker interviews Warren Hern, one of the few physicians who openly perform late abortions, has been receiving death threats since 1973. He thinks women are worse off today than they were back then.
Review of Whose Choice Is It? Abortion, Medicine, and the Law, from ABA Press, 2021.
ABA - Whose Choice Is It? Flyer (pdf)
On the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, could it be the last?Sarah McCammon, NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, January 23, 2022, 7:59 AM ET
On the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we hear from abortion clinics and from anti-abortion activists on how they're preparing for the potential overturn of the law by the Supreme Court this summer.
Warren M. Hern: Anticipated abolition of Roe v. Wade after 49 years takes away freedom and health for many American womenWarren M. Hern, Daily Camera guest opinion, Boulder Daily Camera, January 22, 2022
One of the great legal landmarks in American history, and one of the most important landmarks in the history of women, is one year short of its 50th anniversary. The Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision on Jan. 22, 1973, and it is very doubtful that it will reach that 50th anniversary.
Bulletproof glass and 24-hour surveillance: The life of an American abortion doctorKathryn Diss and Cameron Schwarz, ABC News (Australia), 11 Oct 2021
For almost 50 years, Dr Warren Hern has performed abortions in Colorado, a liberal safe haven for the women of Texas and other conservative states.
Opinion: Helping women who are having the worst moment of their lives should not be controversialDr. Warren M. Hern, The Colorado Sun, Jul 5, 2021
Why should women’s lives and health be at the mercy of the next election?
Every day, we wake up in the morning and read about ourselves in the paper, or at least, about what we are doing – abortions for women who need them.
An abortion doctor speaks out about decades of threats and violenceWarren M. Hern, STAT, December 4, 2015. The first death threats came at 3 a.m. It was November 1973 and I had just started performing abortions at a small nonprofit clinic in Colorado. Now the phone was ringing at my home in the dead of night. I had built my small house deep in the mountains, in a place of solitude and beauty, where I could see the stars at night. How did they find me here? I was terrified. I started sleeping with a rifle by my bed. I expected to be shot as I walked out the door in the morning or as I came home at night.
A Documentary with No Easy Answers [After Tiller]Casey N. Cep, (
bio)
The New Yorker, October 15, 2013. The conflict between Dr. Tiller’s faith and the religious motivations of his murderer also struck the filmmaker Lana Wilson. “I thought it was so surprising that the No. 1 target of the anti-abortion movement was a deeply religious Christian,” she told me. Wilson, who was frustrated with media coverage that refused to do more than label Dr. Tiller a “polarizing, political figure,” remembers “wanting to put a human face on the issues.” By early 2010, she and Martha Shane, her co-director, were working on a documentary—only instead of focussing on Dr. Tiller, they decided to profile the four remaining doctors who perform late-term abortions.
“After Tiller,” their film, premièred earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival and is now screening in theatres around the country.
A.O. Scott,
New York Times, Sept. 19, 2013 ‘After Tiller’ Is a Documentary About Abortion Doctors “After Tiller,” a new documentary by Martha Shane and Lana Wilson, is a partisan document in the culture wars. It could hardly be otherwise, since the film’s subject, abortion, is one where common ground is elusive, if not philosophically untenable. The four doctors interviewed and observed on screen, who the film says are the only ones in the United States openly performing third-trimester abortions, are heroic figures in the filmmakers’ eyes, but are condemned as murderers by those on the other side. It would be nice to believe that a movie like this could provoke civil and respectful dialogue about an intensely polarizing issue, but let’s not kid ourselves. . . .
“After Tiller” is impressive because it honestly presents the views of supporters of legal abortion, and is thus a valuable contribution to a public argument that is unlikely to end anytime soon.
Dr. Warren Hern delivered the following address at Temple Emanuel in Denver on June 11, 2009 at the invitation of Rabbi Steven Foster, Betty Serotta, and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
What About Us? Staff Reactions to D&E Warren M. Hern, MD, MPH, and Billie Corrigan, RN, MS, Boulder Abortion Clinic, Boulder, Colorado. Advances in Planned Parenthood 1980;15(1):3-8. Presented at the 1978 meeting of the Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians, San Diego, California, October 26. National statistics are beginning to suggest that dilitation and evacuation (D & E) may have important advantages for the patient experiencing a second-trimester abortion. However, significant emotional reactions of medical and counseling staff tend to accompany this procedure.
Wikipedia entryWarren Martin Hern, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. (born 1938) is an American physician best known for performing late-term abortions.[1] In 1973, he founded Boulder Abortion Clinic in Boulder, Colorado. Hern was a founding member of the National Abortion Federation, and authored Abortion Practice, a comprehensive text on operating and evaluating abortion facilities. He and doctors LeRoy Carhart, Shelley Sella, and Susan Robinson were the subject of the 2013 documentary After Tiller about the four openly-advertising late-term abortion providers in the United States after the 2009 assassination of George Tiller.
Warren M. Hern, MD, MPH, PhD biography