Doctors are on the frontlines of this chaotic landscape, fearful of running afoul of ever-changing law, in some cases struggling to provide life-saving care. In most cases, doctors have stayed in abortion-restrictive states, because despite restrictions on their medical practice, they have ties to their patients, their communities, their families.
But others have decided to leave. What do they leave behind? In a country where, according to an analysis from the March of Dimes, nearly half of all counties lack a single obstetrician, what care will remain? And what do their predicaments tell us about what it is like to work in reproductive health in much of the US?
Here are five of their stories.
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