A Public Affair

How Book Bans Impact Access to Reproductive Health Information


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How vacuums of misinformation lead to book bans, and how do those book bans limit access to reproductive health information? Barbara Alvarez recently published a piece with The Progressive Magazine titled Libraries: Where Abortion Access and Book Bans Collide.
Barbara Alvarez is a former public librarian in Wisconsin. She is currently a PhD student at UW-Madison. She is also an instructor in Information Science. There she is focusing on information access and reproductive health information. Her forthcoming book is “The Library’s Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information.”
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