Overturning of Roe v. Wade & Its' Effects on the Medical Profession

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Beyond its massive impact in American politics, the Guardian’s Carter Sherman reports that the fall of Roe v Wade upended the education of aspiring doctors who were looking to provide abortions: The fall of Roe v Wade upended Dr Jasmine Chan’s career.

As a medical student, the Texas native wanted to provide abortions as an OB-GYN. But in 2022, as Chan prepared to apply for residency – a kind of years-long apprenticeship after medical school – she worried that the quirks of the residency placement process would keep her in Texas, which banned abortions after the US supreme court overturned Roe. “I met with my advisers and I had very strong heart-to-heart conversations about how I couldn’t see myself practicing medicine if it didn’t include me getting to do abortions,” Chan said. Instead of becoming an OB-GYN, she decided to become a family medicine doctor – a less competitive specialty that increased her chances of finding a residency in a state that protects abortion access.

Now, two years into her residency program in New Jersey, Chan is preparing to finally get the training that she’s longed for her entire career. But, like many other doctors seeking abortion training after Roe’s demise, she will still have to overcome hurdles that didn’t exist just two years ago.

US doctors struggle to get basic abortion training two years after fall of Roe

Post-Roe, doctors are scrambling to get trained amid bans, closed clinics and overburdened facilities

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[MamaFrankie]

This is wrong. Abortion should be the woman's decision only. Her body, her life, her choice, her business.

 

[Webster]

This is wrong. Abortion should be the woman's decision only. Her body, her life, her choice, her business.

If it were only that easy.
What made abortion such a hot-topic issue was Roe v. Wade.

How? At the time Roe was decided, most states in the U.S. had either liberalized/legalized abortion within their state borders; this is not a bug in American law as each state is its' own sovereign under the Constitution. What Roe did was legalize it across-the-board, which basically froze the issue and nationalized it.

What Dobbs did was reinstate the state-by-state questions on abortion that had been in the process of being settled pre-Roe; even the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a scion of women and feminist thought, had long said Roe was bad case law.

 

[MamaFrankie]

Not being American, I am only vaguely familiar with Roe v Wade.

But I still think it should be the woman's decision.