Whose Choice Is It? Abortion, Medicine and the Law
7th edition

The new Seventh Edition of Abortion, Medicine and the Law, edited by David Walbert and J. Douglas Butler, is an encyclopedic collection of articles concerning abortion laws and their effects on medical practice in abortion in the United States. It also has an exhaustive chapter on abortion laws in the rest of the world as well as in Canada and the United States. It includes essential documents such as individual Supreme Court justices' opinions about Roe v. Wade and Casey decisions and the Amicus Curiae brief in Whole Women's Health. Professor Laurence Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard, is the author of a chapter taken from his book, Abortion: Clash of Absolutes. Dr. Alan Guttmacher, a giant in the field of women's health care, is the author of an article that describes the changes in the medical profession's attitudes toward abortion from the time he was an ob/gyn resident in the 1920's until the early 1970's. Dr. Guttmacher became one of the advocates of safe, legal abortion.

The last chapter in the book, one of two by physicians (the other one by Dr. Guttmacher), is my chapter, "Late Abortion - Clinical and Ethical Issues." This is an invaluable reference work that belongs in all medical and legal libraries. I am proud to have been invited to contribute a chapter.

Conflict of interest disclosure: None. I have received no pay or compensation for my invited chapter, nor will I, either as an author or for promoting this book.
Warren M. Hern, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Director, Boulder Abortion Clinic, P.C. (founded in 1975) Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado