With Roe v Wade overturned, abortion is now banned in 13 states and subject to restrictions and litigation in more than a dozen others. In some states, courts are embroiled in an on-off battle that can see abortion banned in a state one day, unbanned the next, and back off the table two weeks later.
Doctors are on the frontlines of this chaotic landscape, fearful of running afoul of ever-changing law, in some cases struggling to provide life-saving care. In most cases, doctors have stayed in abortion-restrictive states, because despite restrictions on their medical practice, they have ties to their patients, their communities, their families.
