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The Insidious Attack on the Training of Ob/Gyn Residents
Jul 25, 2022 | By Robert Kuttner in The American Prospect
Featuring MSFC Founder, Jody Steinauer, MD, PhD.
The Dobbs decision of the Supreme Court is the culmination of half a century of insidiously successful efforts by anti-choice groups to add state restrictions that limit the right of women to get abortions. These rules are compounded by requirements that make it all but impossible for abortion clinics to function.
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As Dr. Jody Steinauer, director of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UC San Francisco, points out, in states that restrict abortions, with most clinics having been put out of business and most hospitals not providing them, women who still have a right to an early elective abortion, or who require emergency care for a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy, literally have no place to turn. It is bizarre and dangerous to require a patient to travel to another state to get urgent care.
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