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Portland OB-GYN new memoir ‘Labor’ highlights abortion access and providing medical care in a mobile health clinic 5%
By Malya Fass0%
7/17/2026, 1:00:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion and Anecdotal, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 32.1% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 100 faulty-reasoning hits from 162 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 20.6% and a BS Rank of 5% (16,399 of 17,212 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 95.30% of the article peer group.
Mary Fariba Afsari is an OB-GYN based in Portland, and she’s written a new memoir, called “Labor: One Woman’s Work.”
She tells the story of her practice and why she chose to take a 31-foot RV and turn it into a mobile women’s health clinic.
She also weaves her personal narrative with the story of her grandmother in Iran, who died as a young woman from an illegal abortion.
We’ll talk with Afsari about the book and her work.
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