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that Baron's specialty is OB/GYN...so here are some of the comments from the President of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)....here is a recent one...note that the ACOG represents over 60,000 OB/GYNs, and related HC providers....and they care for not only babies...but the women who bear them.
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Two Years after the Dobbs Decision, the ACOG Community Continues to Mourn

“On the second anniversary of the catastrophic Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the ACOG community acknowledges the ongoing pain experienced by the many who have suffered as a result.

“Every single time a person has been denied an abortion in the last two years represents a failure of our system to support those in need of care. Abortion is essential health care, and the Dobbs decision has made access to health care in the United States more inequitable than ever before.

“In Idaho, for example, nearly one-quarter of the state’s obstetrician–gynecologists have relocated in the last two years, leaving roughly half of Idaho’s counties without an obstetrician–gynecologist. With three of Idaho’s hospitals also closing their labor and delivery units, many patients now have to travel significantly longer distances for everything from preventive gynecologic care to childbirth. Countless other obstetrician–gynecologists practicing in states with abortion bans have been forced to change their practice patterns or have felt obligated to retire sooner than planned. The gaps in access are widening and inequities are worsening.

“In Texas, heroic patients who have experienced heart-wrenching pregnancy complications have launched legal challenges to the state’s ban, sharing their highly personal stories of loss to try to protect others from the same fate. In response, the state’s Supreme Court rejected the challenges, cruelly placing the blame not on the law, but on the clinicians who have done all that they could to fulfill their ethical duty to their patients within the confines of restrictive state laws.

“In Alabama, families seeking and undergoing IVF faced upheaval, confusion, and uncertainty this year when that state’s Supreme Court made a decision imposing the Alabama personhood law on fertility clinics, leaving them unable to provide care until the state legislature recognized the harm and stepped in, yet still maintained the misguided personhood clause.

“Despite all of this—despite the emerging data about the harms of abortion bans and the multitude of individual stories about pain and loss—state legislatures remain as active as ever, passing progressively crueler bans and finding new loopholes to restrict care. Florida, which for a time was a critical point of access for patients from the surrounding restricted states, passed a law making its abortion ban worse by lowering the threshold for legal abortion from 15 weeks to six weeks—before most people know they are pregnant. And despite the horrors faced by families in Alabama, state legislators continue to introduce, support, and advance their own personhood measures, threatening access not just to fertility care but also other critical facets of health care, potentially including certain contraceptives, oncology care, and emergency care.

“As we observe the damage done to our obstetrician—gynecologist community and the patients for whom they provide care since the decision in Dobbs, we are also cognizant of the ongoing risk of further restrictions in access to safe, essential abortion care.

“The attacks have not slowed, the losses have not stopped, and the suffering has not abated. On the second anniversary of the Dobbs decision, during an election year, we urge all members of our communities to acknowledge the harms of abortion bans and to understand the power that they have to effect the change that this country so critically needs.”
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This issue will not be resolved until Pro-Life extremists factor in the innocent Women involved.


Link: https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2024/06/two-years-after-the-dobbs-decision-the-acog-community-continues-to-mourn