OB/GYNs Walk Away From Anti-Abortion States

They compared the number of those specialists to state-level abortion policy data collected using a legislation tracker maintained by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit sexual and reproductive rights advocacy group.

Researchers specifically focused on 12 states that restricted abortion most following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022 — Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.