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David N. Hackney, MD, MS, will launch his new book IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES: A Physician's Guide to High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe in conversation with Gretchen Tepper of Planned Parenthood and Malik Swisher of Preterm. These reproductive healthcare and policy experts will discuss how the overturning of Roe has imperiled high-risk pregnancies--and how to ensure safe patient healthcare in the future.
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David N. Hackney, MD, MS is Professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University; he is currently a District Legislative Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and had been the Section Chair for Ohio at the time of the Dobbs decision.
Gretchen Tepper has been working in abortion care since 2003 and currently serves as the Senior Director of Abortion Services of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio.
Malik Swisher serves as Partnerships Administrator for Preterm, Ohio's largest independent abortion provider. With expertise in strategic communications, community engagement, and reproductive health advocacy, he builds collaborative partnerships that advance health equity and strengthens organizations.
Impossible Choices: A Physician's Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe
Title
Impossible Choices: A Physician's Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe
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$29.95
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How the overturning of Roe has imperiled high-risk pregnancies--and how to ensure safe patient healthcare in the future. From a leading doctor on the front lines after the Dobbs decision. Doctors and patients confronting high-risk pregnancies have always faced profound and life-altering decisions. But after the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe, many of these decisions seem impossible. As a firsthand witness to this convulsion, David Hackney, a leading physician in maternal fetal medicine, offers knowledgeable, thoughtful guidance to patients and practitioners contending with high-risk pregnancies in our new reality. Impossible Choices focuses on the practical implications of high-risk complications for people who are pregnant or considering pregnancy--including conditions such as pre-eclampsia, premature membrane rupture, or birth defects--especially in states now under abortion bans. And because maternal fetal medicine overlaps with other medical fields as pregnant patients struggle with, for instance, kidney disease, lupus, diabetes, and cancer, the book also addresses a wide array of medical questions and complications. How do we make decisions when thrown into extreme and uncertain circumstances? The author answers this question and more by painting a nuanced and clear-eyed picture of obstetrics after Dobbs, illustrating his reflections with stories from his own practice, as well as those of his wife, in pediatric oncology. Without being partisan or polemical, the book offers the informed compassion and way forward that this fraught moment in maternal medicine calls for.
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9780262054706
Impossible Choices: A Physician's Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe
$29.95
Pre-Order
Description
How the overturning of Roe has imperiled high-risk pregnancies--and how to ensure safe patient healthcare in the future. From a leading doctor on the front lines after the Dobbs decision. Doctors and patients confronting high-risk pregnancies have always faced profound and life-altering decisions. But after the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe, many of these decisions seem impossible. As a firsthand witness to this convulsion, David Hackney, a leading physician in maternal fetal medicine, offers knowledgeable, thoughtful guidance to patients and practitioners contending with high-risk pregnancies in our new reality. Impossible Choices focuses on the practical implications of high-risk complications for people who are pregnant or considering pregnancy--including conditions such as pre-eclampsia, premature membrane rupture, or birth defects--especially in states now under abortion bans. And because maternal fetal medicine overlaps with other medical fields as pregnant patients struggle with, for instance, kidney disease, lupus, diabetes, and cancer, the book also addresses a wide array of medical questions and complications. How do we make decisions when thrown into extreme and uncertain circumstances? The author answers this question and more by painting a nuanced and clear-eyed picture of obstetrics after Dobbs, illustrating his reflections with stories from his own practice, as well as those of his wife, in pediatric oncology. Without being partisan or polemical, the book offers the informed compassion and way forward that this fraught moment in maternal medicine calls for.
Description
How the overturning of Roe has imperiled high-risk pregnancies--and how to ensure safe patient healthcare in the future. From a leading doctor on the front lines after the Dobbs decision. Doctors and patients confronting high-risk pregnancies have always faced profound and life-altering decisions. But after the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe, many of these decisions seem impossible. As a firsthand witness to this convulsion, David Hackney, a leading physician in maternal fetal medicine, offers knowledgeable, thoughtful guidance to patients and practitioners contending with high-risk pregnancies in our new reality. Impossible Choices focuses on the practical implications of high-risk complications for people who are pregnant or considering pregnancy--including conditions such as pre-eclampsia, premature membrane rupture, or birth defects--especially in states now under abortion bans. And because maternal fetal medicine overlaps with other medical fields as pregnant patients struggle with, for instance, kidney disease, lupus, diabetes, and cancer, the book also addresses a wide array of medical questions and complications. How do we make decisions when thrown into extreme and uncertain circumstances? The author answers this question and more by painting a nuanced and clear-eyed picture of obstetrics after Dobbs, illustrating his reflections with stories from his own practice, as well as those of his wife, in pediatric oncology. Without being partisan or polemical, the book offers the informed compassion and way forward that this fraught moment in maternal medicine calls for.
ISBN
9780262054706
Publisher
Publication Date
August 18, 2026
Binding
Hardcover
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
208
Keywords
Medical | Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Social Science | Women's Studies; Political Science | Public Policy | Health Care; Health & Fitness | Reproductive Health; Social Science | Abortion & Birth Control
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