Carole Joffe's AFTER DOBBS In Store Event And Book Signing

Join us at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on Thursday, March 27th at 7:00 PM when Berkeley author Carole Joffee comes to the store to discuss her new book After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe But Not Abortion. Carole will sign copies of her book after the presentation.

to preorder a copy of After Dobbs

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, many feared it meant the end of abortion access in the United States. Yet the courageous work of people on the ground has allowed abortion to survive post-Dobbs in ways that no one predicted.

In After Dobbs, law professor David S. Cohen and sociologist Carole Joffe interview 24 people across all different fields in abortion and in different state political environments to uncover how the abortion providing community and its allies prepared for, and then responded to this momentous event. Taking place across three intervals throughout 2022—pre-Dobbs in early 2022, right after Dobbs, and then six months later—these interviews showcase how nimble thinking on the part of providers, growth and new delivery models of abortion pills, and the never-ending work of those who help with abortion travel and funding have ensured most people who want them are still getting abortions, even without Roe.

But, as much as this is cause for celebration, the work required to make abortion possible is difficult and costly—in time, money, and emotion. There may soon come a time when the overturning of Roe means a much more severe decline in the number of people able to obtain the abortions they seek. But because of the work of the people in this book and those like them, even though Roe is dead, abortion is not . . . yet.

CAROLE JOFFE is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a professor emerita of sociology at the U. of California, Davis. She is the coauthor of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America (California Univ. Press 2020) with David S. Cohen.

THIS EVENT is free but registration is requested. Registration ends at 5:30 pm on March 27th, 2025.

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WALK-INS will be accommodated only if space allows.

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