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Freestanding birth centers are closing as maternity care gaps grow

The 19th

Freestanding birth centers like Maple Street Birth Center in rural Okanogan County, Washington where Sarah Simmons (left) is a midwife and co-owner, are facing mounting financial and regulatory pressures. (Courtesy Sarah Simmons)

For birth workers and advocates Latona Giwa and Tasia Stewart, supporting pregnant people means embracing abortion care

Abortion in America

“A huge lack of trust of the medical community”: An OB/GYN and medical student discuss the consequences of Louisiana’s abortion ban for the field of health care

Abortion in America

I’m a Texan. But I don’t know if I can be a Texas OB-GYN

COURIER Texas

Idaho is losing OB-GYNs. Doctors who remain are trying to shoulder the extra burdens.

States Newsroom

Dr. Becky Uranga, an OB-GYN in the Boise area of Idaho, holds one of many babies she has delivered over her 14 years of practice. As OB-GYNs and specialists have left Idaho after the implementation of a near-total abortion ban, Uranga said she is shouldering more work and feeling unable to give as much of her attention to some patients as she used to. (Courtesy of Dr. Becky Uranga)

Iowa has an OB-GYN shortage. Some doctors blame the state’s strict abortion ban

NPR

What one NICU nurse wants you to know about how abortion bans affect babies in Texas

Abortion in America

In her own words: Why this Texas physician now helps women in Virginia

Dogwood

Many physicians have left Texas for states like Virginia to serve patients without the restrictions of abortion bans. Getty Images/The Good Brigade

Texas’ first abortion arrests stem from monthlong attorney general investigation

The Texas Tribune

A nurse speaks with a patient at a clinic in Houston on Aug. 2, 2013. Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune

Louisiana mother, New York doctor indicted for allegedly giving minor abortion pills

Louisiana Illuminator

A Louisiana district attorney is prosecuting a New York doctor and West Baton Rouge Parish mother who allegedly provided abortion pills to her minor daughter. (Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Texas man sues California doctor over medication abortion

Courthouse News Service

A patient prepares to take the first of two pills for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on Oct. 12, 2022. (Charlie Riedel/AP)

The Traveling Doctor

Mother Jones

Mother Jones; Getty; Unsplash

Texas native reveals: ‘Why I’ll be terrified to practice in Texas as an OB-GYN’

COURIER Texas

Indiana OB-GYN: Patients aren’t getting the care they need because of abortion bans

Abortion in America

Sharing stories: After Dobbs, a Pennsylvania pediatrician couldn’t remain silent

The Pennsylvania Independent

Why Kaitlyn Kash’s story is so devastating for doctors like me

MSNBC