WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have a wide-ranging effect on the treatment of numerous medical conditions and diseases, including care for cancers that occur during pregnancy as well as miscarriages.
Restrictive abortion laws will likely make it more difficult for women to get appropriate miscarriage treatments, doctors say, because the procedures used to treat it can be exactly the same as those used to terminate an otherwise viable pregnancy.
Abortion advocates and doctors’ groups have warned about the havoc that a ban could cause for pregnant patients with a wide range of illnesses and ailments. Now that the court has delivered its decision against abortion rights, patients are going to feel the effects, doctors said.
