Future doctors say they're discouraged from working in states with abortion bans

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'It would be really a tragedy for me to not be able to provide the full scope of reproductive care and have to go day by day and send people up to Chicago, or wherever, and not be able to do it myself.'

over its legality under the state's constitution continues. But, the looming case has created uncertainty around whether access to abortion care will remain in the state.

"I would find it very, very, very difficult to go back, as much as I want to. It would be really a tragedy for me to not be able to provide the full scope of reproductive care and have to go day by day and send people up to Chicago, or wherever, and not be able to do it myself," Brown said. "My goal was to end up in Indiana, or at least around Indiana, but I don't know if that's going to be a safe or realistic option anymore.

Percent Change in U.S. MD Senior OB/GYN Applicants from the Previous Application Cycle by State Abortion-Ban StatusMarisa Giglio, a first-year resident at Rutgers University in New Jersey -- whose family lives in North Carolina and Alabama -- was very careful about where she applied, knowing the Supreme Court was hearing an abortion case. Months before Roe was overturned, she was in a "scramble" to find which states were planning to restrict abortion care and avoid them.

"I don't envy the providers who already live in these states and are facing this on a daily basis," Dicenzo said. "I'm not really itching to put myself in that position either. So I also would probably steer away from providing care in those states."

 

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