Health experts warn that this potential migration could be devastating for patients, leaving them without access to birth control, prenatal care and other reproductive health services
Among the providers POLITICO spoke with in states with abortion bans on their books, none said they are willing to offer illegal abortions — aware that doing so risks losing their medical license and, in some states, serving a lengthy jail sentence.
“We’ve seen an uptick in interest since the Supreme Court decision leaked,” said Melissa Fowler, the chief program officer of the National Abortion Federation. “People had been holding out hope, but after that, they started advancing and accelerating their plans to find work in other states.” “I’m just going to keep on keeping on, providing abortions until the last day I can,” Brant said. “I could be looking for jobs elsewhere. But a sliver of me remains optimistic that people will be so outraged that the pendulum will swing back.”
But Brant remains worried the skills she spent years developing will “atrophy” under a ban, so she’s talking to clinics in Michigan and Illinois and up and down the East Coast and debating whether to start the complicated and expensive process of applying to get licensed elsewhere so she can pursue part-time travel work.
, providers have had more time to grapple with their future. But that hasn’t made the decision any easier.
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