“Public health experts predict that in a few years, patients in abortion prohibited states, where the ranks of obstetricians are already shrinking, will experience even greater barriers to reproductive health care,” wrote Jan Hoffman in the New York Times.40 This problem too may lead to worse care in those states because there will be fewer doctors willing to practice there.41 And that doesn’t just extend to obstetrics—the slight majority of medical school graduates are female and ending their training in their early thirties, prime baby-making time. Those oncologists, pulmonologists, and
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