\u201cWhy are we making people choose between their own lives and continuing a pregnancy in a forced birth situation?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u200b\u200bIt\u2019s the reality for many patients and doctors in red states across the country. Abortion bans have resulted in a mass exodus of obstetricians that\u2019s left thousands of pregnant people without access to care. In Idaho, 22% of practicing obstetricians<\/a> have left the state since its abortion ban took effect, according to a report by the Iowa Coalition for Safe Health Care. Months after Texas imposed its six-week abortion ban, applications to Texas-based OGBYN residencies dropped <\/a>by 10.4%.<\/p>\n Read more at Salon<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWhy are we making people choose between their own lives and continuing a pregnancy in a forced birth situation?\u201d \u200b\u200bIt\u2019s the reality for many patients and doctors in red states across the country. Abortion bans have resulted in a mass exodus of obstetricians that\u2019s left thousands of pregnant people without access to care. In Idaho, … 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":[172,214,401,99,15,384],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-ballot-initiatives","tag-forced-birth","tag-maternity-deserts","tag-missouri","tag-ob-gyn-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}