Author: Beverly Winikoff, MD MPH

Beverly Winikoff is currently president of Gynuity Health Projects and a professor of clinical population and family health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Her work has focused on issues of reproductive choice, contraception, abortion, and women’s health. Dr. Winikoff graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, earned her MD degree from New York University and her MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. This article is reprinted with permission from Conscience, Vol. XXXV No. 3 (2014).