One Year After The Fall Of Roe V. Wade, Abortion Care Has Become A Patchwork Of Confusing State Laws That Deepen Existing Inequalities
Abortion bans and restrictions have numerous downstream effects on health care. For instance, medical students in states where those laws exist will not receive training for some standard procedures, while physicians in Texas predict that sepsis from incomplete illegal abortions will become that state’s leading cause of maternal death.