A University of Utah researcher polled OB-GYN residents about their career plans after the Dobbs decision. Of the more than 300 who responded, nearly one in five said they had altered their intended practice state, and those who initially planned to practice in states that restricted abortion were eight times as likely to have changed their plans.
A paper from University of Utah researchers in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology found that 1 in 5 OB-GYN residents altered their intended practice state following the Dobbs decision.
So she set out to find those answers, reaching out to hundreds of OB-GYN residents across the country. Under the 18-week ban, Utah is classified as “restrictive” by the Guttmacher Institute, whose classifications Woodcock used in analyzing survey responses. Training in providing abortions, and when to recommend one, has uses beyond offering care to people who are electively choosing to terminate a pregnancy. It requires trainees to respond to and help navigate a miscarriage, but that’s not all.
“I’ve never seen somebody die from an ectopic pregnancy until this year,” Turok said. “We’ve seen people who have had dramatic and unfortunate outcomes earlier in pregnancy due to lack of access locally and in surrounding states. So this is a major connector and driver for our ability to recruit and retain workforce for the future, and we’ve already seen it in applications locally and nationally for medical training, especially for OB-GYNs.
“I’m actually surprised you’d like to step into that,” said physician and state Sen. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine, the other co-chair. “We’d like to continue to engage, but this is not the setting or circumstances where I’m interested in having you engage on that topic.” One of Utah’s policymakers has done that — and more. When she isn’t on Capitol Hill, Rep. Rosemary Lesser, D-Ogden, works as an OB-GYN, and is a fellow with the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She also was present at Turok’s presentation to the interim committee.
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