Abiortion bans driving doctors away

 Feminist.org -   A new national JAMA study found a 4% drop in OB-GYN practitioners per 100,000 reproductive-age women in the states with the most restrictions on reproductive healthcare, compared to no decline in states without new restrictions. Since the Dobbs ruling in 2022, increasingly restrictive abortion laws have caused alarming rates of OB-GYNs from affected states to stop practicing medicine in the area, creating maternity care deserts. Maternity care deserts are defined by March of Dimes as “any county without a hospital or birth center offering obstetric care and without any obstetric clinicians.”