Maternity care deserts – increasing in number

Millions of US women don’t have access to maternity care, report warns More than a third of US counties do not have a single medical birthing facility or the services of an obstetric clinician, causing health advocates to warn about the dangers of “maternity care deserts”, a new report says. Read more at The Guardian … Read more

Republicans want to steal reproductive freedom. Black women will suffer most | Opinion

According to US census projections, people of color are on par to be the majority by the middle of the century. With this imminent reality, the focus on controlling our fertility and denying us bodily autonomy is the age-old strategy of authoritarian, democracy-denying regimes. And to have a conservative-leaning supreme court that has proved that … Read more

Doctors Are Leaving Conservative States to Learn to Perform Abortions. We Followed One.

The doctor didn’t want to accept that gap in her training. So she threw herself into the growing pool of doctors scrambling to find a clinic in another state willing to offer a few weeks of hands-on abortion instruction. It would take her two years to find, apply for and raise the funds to afford … Read more

“No real clarity”: Supreme Court emergency abortion decision leaving Idaho physicians in the dark

Cadwallader added that issues like OBGYNs leaving the state and patients being airlifted to out-of-state hospitals will remain. “I think we’re going to see the transfers continue to happen,” she said. “I think we’re going to continue to lose OBGYNs and other doctors in our state.” Read more at Salon  

Abortion bans still leave a ‘gray area’ for doctors after Idaho Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court’s abortion ruling on Thursday is a narrow one that applies only to Idaho and sends a case back down to the appeals court. Confusion among doctors in states that have strict abortion bans remains widespread. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.

How Biden’s campaign is linking abortion and Trump’s felony convictions

The Biden campaign also released a new ad featuring Kaitlyn Joshua, a Louisiana woman who says she was turned away from two emergency rooms while having a miscarriage at 11 weeks of pregnancy in the state, which has a strict abortion ban. “That was a direct result of Donald Trump overturning Roe v. Wade,” Joshua … Read more

Pregnancy in America is starting to feel like a crime

Terrified you might be losing your pregnancy, you rush to the emergency room — only to be told that no one there will care for you, because they’re worried they could be accused of participating in an abortion. The staff tells you to drive to another hospital, but that will take hours, by which time, … Read more

Study: Medical residents beginning to avoid states with abortion bans

Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data shows Still, Resneck said, “we’re extraordinarily worried.” For example, physicians without adequate abortion training may not be able to manage miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies or potential complications, such as infection or hemorrhaging, that could stem from pregnancy loss. Those who work with students and residents … Read more