Idaho Lost One in Three OB/GYNs After Its Abortion Ban

Idaho lost one in three OB/GYNs after its abortion ban

New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Idaho Has Lost A Third Of Its Ob-Gyns Since Banning Abortion

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the state of Idaho decided, like many other like-minded states, that they just loved babies so very much that they wanted to force people to give birth to them against their will. So they outlawed all abortions and even pushed to make it so that doctors couldn’t perform them in emergencies. Unfortunately, there have been some rather predictable side-effects, starting with the fact that they now have significantl…

Doctors left Idaho after abortion ban, study confirms » Sandpoint Reader

By Kyle PfannenstielIdaho Capital Sun Idaho lost more than a third of its practicing obstetrician doctors after the state’s near-total abortion ban took effect, a new study published in a peer-reviewed academic journal confirms. The study — published July 31 in the JAMA Network Open, a division of the Journal of the American Medical Association — found that Idaho lost 35% of its doctors who practiced in obstetrics. In total, Idaho lost 94 of tho…