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As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers [1]

['Sheryl Gay Stolberg']

Date: 2023-09-06

When caring for patients with pregnancy complications, Dr. Gustafson seeks counsel from maternal-fetal medicine specialists in Boise, the state capital two hours away. But two of the experts she relied on as backup have packed up their young families and moved away, one to Minnesota and the other to Colorado.

All told, more than a dozen labor and delivery doctors — including five of Idaho’s nine longtime maternal-fetal experts — will have either left or retired by the end of this year. Dr. Gustafson says the departures have made a bad situation worse, depriving both patients and doctors of moral support and medical advice.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/abortion-obstetricians-maternity-care.html

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