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Foster: OB/GYNs face legal uncertainties related to abortion bans
Dec 02, 2022 | By John D. Foster in Longview News-Journal
Featuring MSFC's Chapter Leaders, Alana Carstensand Mary Rose Porter
Alana Carstens Yalom is a third-year OB/GYN resident at the University of New Mexico. She attended medical school at Tulane University in New Orleans and entertained the idea of returning to Louisiana for her medical practice. But not anymore. She wants abortion care to be a part of her OB/GYN practice, and Louisiana has a ban.
“Now I don’t think that is even an option for me,” she said in a report by Christopher Rowland in The Washington Post.
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Mary Rose Porter, an Austin native who is a student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said she will apply to residencies in her home state, but that the rest of the choices on her list will only be in states where abortion is legal. Porter, a member of Medical Students for Choice, said in the long term she does not expect to practice medicine in Texas.
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