Medical Deserts – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

05 Aug

As Iowa’s maternity care deserts continue to grow, doctors say the state’s new abortion ban will only make matters worse

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“Dr. Emily Boevers is the only full-time OBGYN at a critical access hospital in a rural city in Iowa about 10 miles from the farm she grew up on. She’s the only full-time OBGYN in the county, in a state that just banned most abortions…”

Nearly a thousand fewer doctors applied to come to Utah this year. The state’s abortion rules may be to blame.

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“State governments and health care leaders need to consider the potential impact of those [policy] decisions on the physician workforce,” the health care think tank wrote in their report.

Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions

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The AAMC analysis found the number of applicants to OB-GYN residency programs in abortion ban states dropped by 6.7%, compared with a 0.4% increase in states where abortion remains legal. For internal medicine, the drop observed in abortion ban states was over five times as much as in states where abortion is legal. In its analysis, the AAMC said an ongoing decline in interest in ban states among new doctors ultimately “may negatively affect access to care in those states.”