As conservative states move to push laws or measures aimed at curbing abortions and those who provide them, a chill has shot through the community of medical students, physician instructors and other doctors involved in abortion care.
is creating an environment in which they have to pick between being employed or providing what they see as a necessary service, while students say it is becoming even harder to learn this life-saving skill.State legislatures pass most restrictive abortion laws yet, putting Roe v. Wade at risk
An unidentified activist speaks outside the Supreme Court in protest of a Texas anti-abortion measure in a photo taken on Sept. 2, 2021. Last year, when Martin did not match with the University of California-Davis medical school, he opted for a spot with the Mississippi program. Martin said that while he was relieved to be attending medical school at all, he was hesitant to receive training in a majority anti-abortion state.
Likewise, Vega said that when her residency starts in her third year of medical school, she hopes to transfer to a state where abortion training and procedures are more accessible. She said she turned to local doctors and hospitals for help after finding Texas A&M's abortion training inadequate, but most declined out of fear of being associated with abortion in a heavily anti-abortion region.
"If that is the road that states with bans want to travel down, they need to be honest and transparent with prospective and current students about changes in the quality of education they're going to receive," Merritt said. "And medical schools need to make declarative statements about whether they're going to hold to that core, fundamental role of abortion in family planning and healthcare or whether they're going to regress along with the states they are in.
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