Mercer Gary : Hi there, this is Mercer Gary, and I'm here with Rebecca Kelliher, the author of Just Pills: the Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care . Hi, Rebecca.  Rebecca Kelliher : Hi, thank you so much for  having me. MG : That you for being here. So, if we could start out by having you give us a brief synopsis of your recent book, we'd love to hear you describe it and how you came to write it.  RK : Just Pills , my book, is a history of abortion pills. It

Thoughts on “The Case” in Public Bioethics This year I’ve been contemplating the ethics of highly publicized bioethics “cases.” Here I am thinking about medical (or medical-related) individual patient situations that enter mainstream awareness through news media, and then are debated in the public sphere, as well as among academic bioethicists. I am writing from the United States, where there is a history of these public cases shaping bioethics as a field. We can name patient