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August 2004, Vol 94, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1298-1299
© 2004 American Public Health Association

EDITORIAL

Access Denied, Science Denied

Wendy Chavkin, MD, MPH

The author chairs the board of directors of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Wendy Chavkin, MD, MPH, Heilbrunn Center for Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, 60 Haven Ave, B-2, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: wc9@columbia.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

It would be useful to be writing about ways to move forward creatively to tackle the daunting reproductive health problems that trouble the world. In the United States, these include rapidly rising rates of sexually transmitted HIV infection among young women and striking disparities between the many women experiencing unwanted pregnancies and those desperately pursuing quasi-experimental assisted reproductive technologies to achieve pregnancy. The developing world also confronts high rates of HIV and unwanted pregnancy, with the latter too often leading to deaths from illegal abortion. Lack of access to modern obstetric technology in parts of the developing world makes pregnancy . . . [Full Text]






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