Publications in peer-review journals & invited book

Colorado’s Abortion Ban Would Have a Lasting Impact Across the Border

Colorado’s Abortion Ban Would Have a Lasting Impact Across the Border
by Robyn Schwarz
Rewire News Group, Oct. 29, 2020

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Community health, fertility trends, and ecocultural change in a Peruvian Amazon Indian village: 1964-1969

Master of Public Health thesis, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. 1971
By Hern, W.M.

Conocimiento y uso de anticonceptivos herbales en una comunidad Shipibo

Amazonia Peruana 24:143- 160, 1994.

Correlation of Fetal Age and Measurements between 10 and 26 weeks of Gestation

Obstetrics and Gynecology 63:26-32, 1984

Correlation of Sonographic Cephalometry with Clinical Assessment of Fetal Age following early mid-trimester D & E abortion

W.M. Hern, W.A. Miller, L. Paine, and K.D. Moorhead. Advances in Planned Parenthood 13:14-20, 1978.

Cultural change, polygyny, and fertility among the Shipibo of the Peruvian Amazon.

In Demography of Lowland South American Indians: Case Studies from Lowland South America, Kathleen Adams and David Price (Eds.). South American Indian Studies 4:77-86, 1994.

Defeat of SB 80 protected us from anti-abortion violence and terrorism.

The Colorado Statesman, Commentary, April 9, 1999.

Did I Violate The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban?

A doctor ponders a new era of prosecution. Slate.com, October 22, 2003.

Dilapan vs. Laminaria in second trimester abortion: Randomized controlled cohort of 1001 patients.

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 171(5):1324-1328, 1994.

• Ortho Award, Best Scientific Paper, National Abortion Federation Annual Meeting, 1993
• Ortho Award, Best Scientific Paper, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, 1994

Dilatation and Evacuation Abortion

Letter to the editor, Obstetrics and Gynecology 60:667, 1982

Discussion remarks. In Shaw, M.W, Doudera, A.E, (eds): Defining Human Life: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Implications

Ann Arbor, AUPHA Press, 1983. Proceedings of the conference entitled Human Life Symposium: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Concept of Person, Houston, Texas, March 1982.

Doctors disparaged in abortion debate.

The Daily Camera, March 19, 1993

Drug Won’t End Abortion Dilemma

The Daily Camera, April 5, 1986. Use of prostaglandins as abortifacients. In Gynecology and Obstetrics, Chapter 58, J.W. Sciarra, Ed., Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co, 1982. Published in 1988

Effects of cultural change on health and fertility in Amazonian Indian societies: Recent research and projections.

Population and Environment 13(1):23-43, 1991.

Evolution of Second Trimester Abortion Techniques

In Prevention and Treatment of Contraceptive Failure, U. Landy and S.S. Ratnam, eds. New York: Plenum Press, 1986.

Family Planning and the Poor.

The New Republic, November 14, 1970.

Family planning, Amazon style

Natural History, December, 1993.
By Hern, W.M.

First and Second Trimester Abortion Techniques

Current Problems in Obstetrics and Gynecology 6, No. 11: July 1983

First Trimester Abortion: Complications and Their Management

In Gynecology and Obstetrics, Chapter 59, J.W. Sciarra, Ed., Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1982.

First trimester abortion: Principles, Techniques, and Clinical Management.

In Fertility Control, Stephen L. Corson, Richard J. Derman, and Louise B. Tyrer (Eds.). Second edition. London, Ontario, Canada: Goldin Publishers, 1994.