Roe versus Reality — Abortion and Women's Health

Interview with Dr. Kenneth Edelin on Abortion and Women’s Health. (10:49)Download Interview with Dr. Watson Bowes on Abortion and Women’s Health. (08:06)Download Sandra Jones was on her way to a Nebraska operating room to have an abscess drained when she learned that, once again, she had defied medical odds. Six months earlier, doctors had diagnosed breast cancer in the 31-year-old mother of two. Because her test results were positive for the breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) and she was at high risk for ovarian cancer and recurrent breast cancer, they had recommended bilateral mastectomy, chemotherapy, and a hysterectomy, but Jones (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy) was not ready to give up childbearing. Her doctors warned . . .