{"id":1645,"date":"2023-11-19T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2023-11-19T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:08:10","slug":"with-tears-and-a-lullaby-a-rural-alabama-hospital-stops-delivering-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/with-tears-and-a-lullaby-a-rural-alabama-hospital-stops-delivering-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Kirby, Monroe County Hospital&#8217;s CEO, said a physician shortage was behind the closing.\u00a0After the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, some <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/health-law-and-business\/hospitals-fear-abortion-bans-will-worsen-staff-shortages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hospitals<\/a> in states with strict abortion bans have warned that it could become harder to recruit OB-GYNs, though Kirby said she wasn&#8217;t aware of that as a factor in this case. Residency applications for the specialty have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/hospital-physician-relationships\/ob-gyn-residencies-see-applications-drop-post-dobbs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped<\/a> more in states with abortion bans than nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/rural-alabama-hospital-stops-delivering-babies-tears-lullaby-rcna125541\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Kirby, Monroe County Hospital&#8217;s CEO, said a physician shortage was behind the closing.\u00a0After the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, some hospitals in states with strict abortion bans have warned that it could become harder to recruit OB-GYNs, though Kirby said she wasn&#8217;t aware of that as a factor in this case. Residency &#8230; <a title=\"With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/with-tears-and-a-lullaby-a-rural-alabama-hospital-stops-delivering-babies\/\" aria-label=\"More on With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,194,90,99,200],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alabama","tag-dobbs","tag-maternal-death-rates","tag-maternity-deserts","tag-ob-gyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}