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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
Here are five of their stories.<\/p>\n
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