This is an excellent editorial on the dangerous impact of the overturning of RvW. And it all was so predictable to knowledgeable health professionals like you, MAG. So what do we do about it? Texas was already a nightmare womens health state.
There is so much to fix in our country right now. I am afraid this story is already old news to most people. And that is scary as hell.
Thank you - you should know! My concern, too. For starters, we need to take the word "abortion" out of first paragraphs--that's where people, exhausted, tune out. And if these states had almost a 5% decrease in docs in under 3 years, that's actually stunning--as you know, it takes a huge amount of energy to uproot family and practice. The snowball effect is coming when new docs can't be recruited and more rural hospitals have to close OB units. Eventually, the price of this will come home to women in those states. And the states' maternal mortality and morbidity data will be even more appalling--which ProPublic is making sure the states can't hide. Stories about these women bring it home; women readers will feel the horifying effect. Churchill long ago said, "You can trust the Americans to do the right thing...after they try everything else." We're in the "everything else" phase right now--but it's a phase. Neither history nor the world will put this in a favorable light.
This is an excellent editorial on the dangerous impact of the overturning of RvW. And it all was so predictable to knowledgeable health professionals like you, MAG. So what do we do about it? Texas was already a nightmare womens health state.
There is so much to fix in our country right now. I am afraid this story is already old news to most people. And that is scary as hell.
Thank you - you should know! My concern, too. For starters, we need to take the word "abortion" out of first paragraphs--that's where people, exhausted, tune out. And if these states had almost a 5% decrease in docs in under 3 years, that's actually stunning--as you know, it takes a huge amount of energy to uproot family and practice. The snowball effect is coming when new docs can't be recruited and more rural hospitals have to close OB units. Eventually, the price of this will come home to women in those states. And the states' maternal mortality and morbidity data will be even more appalling--which ProPublic is making sure the states can't hide. Stories about these women bring it home; women readers will feel the horifying effect. Churchill long ago said, "You can trust the Americans to do the right thing...after they try everything else." We're in the "everything else" phase right now--but it's a phase. Neither history nor the world will put this in a favorable light.