Advocacy and Health Policy |
Abortion Bans Prevent Clinicians from Providing Care
In the more than two years since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, pregnant people across the country have suffered as their access to care was stripped away. Patients have been forced to travel hundreds of miles to get care, afraid that they may not survive the trip. Doctors have been forced to watch their patients get sicker and sicker before they could intervene. Pregnant people have been forced to experience severe and sometimes irreversible health consequences from being denied essential health care. All the while, anti-abortion advocates have misrepresented and exploited real people’s tragedies to advance their own agenda.
Despite misinformation and confusion spread by politicians and anti-abortion advocates, the truth is clear: abortion bans prevent doctors and clinicians from providing essential reproductive health care to their patients. Reproductive health care being delayed, denied, ormade inaccessible is the direct result of harmful abortion bans that confuse and harm clinicians and the patients they treat.
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