My failed pregnancy required me to undergo a dilation and extraction procedure, one of those the House GOP has voted to make illegal as part of training doctors. If my doctor had not been trained, I could have died.
Despite pressure from the Catholic Church, voters in Malta asked for the legal right to divorce. This leaves the Philippines as the only country where divorce is illegal, but maybe not for long.
A woman in a small town in the Midwest enters an emergency room with a massive infection because her fetus has died and is causing a massive infection in her body. However, not one of the OB/GYNs on call that night is competent enough to successfully complete the procedure needed to save her life. This is a true story.
Of course, you are all like George. You care for women regardless of the personal risks, the political climate, the increasing number of restrictions and regulations and pure harassment that you and your patients endure.
Let me tell you why I am not doing this work. It is not because of the bleeding, septic, and sometimes dying women that I, and others, saw in our first years of training.
There's been a lot of analysis done over the push for fetal pain laws in the states. But why do anti-abortion activists was that particular law to be the one to challenge Roe V. Wade?
Last week, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit in South Dakota challenging one of the most restrictive—and downright offensive—abortion laws we've ever seen.
