There are a lot of us at National Right to Life that closely scrutinize medical journals. Not, you understand, that they are immune to pro-abortion bias, but you can still learn a lot.
And, every once in a while, the truth seeps out. Take “Ob/Gyns Mostly Stayed Put After SCOTUS Overturned Roe, Study Finds: Surprising results go against the idea that ob/gyns moved from abortion-restrictive states” that appeared here which I wrote about here.
As Rachael Robertson, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, for MedPage Today wrote back in April, “In the post-Roe v. Wade era, ob/gyns continued to practice in similar locations as before, according to a descriptive cohort study.”
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She quoted the authors
“The only statistically significant difference suggested that the share of physicians who are ob/gyns decreased less in threatened states than in protected ones, opposite to the expected finding if ob/gyns were leaving states where abortion is threatened,” the authors wrote.”
Well, Becky Staiger and Valentin Bolotnyy, two of the three authors of the April 21 JAMA Network Open article, brought their results to a larger audience yesterday—The Hill.
The headline was even more explicit: “No, OBGYNs are not systematically fleeing states that banned abortion.” They begin by writing that the 2022 Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe, supposedly “added a new layer of legal risk” for ob-gyns. However, this has not caused them to hightail it to pro-abortion states.
But in research just published in JAMA Network Open, we and our co-authors find no evidence of such an exodus of obstetrician-gynecologist physicians from states with abortion bans.
Really? “OBGYNs also continued to move into states with abortion bans at similar rates to other states,” they wrote. “We also considered trends in the practice locations of recent residency graduates and subspecialists in maternal-fetal medicine, as well as trends in the share of OBGYNs who are female and who are licensed to practice in more than one state. All were similar between states, regardless of abortion’s legality.’ [Emphasis added]
They also acknowledged that “Our findings are not unique.”
In December 2024, an independent group of researchers using a different data set came to the exact same conclusions. And in March, researchers showed that the number of obstetrician-gynecologists in states with bans has increased since Dobbs, though perhaps at a slower rate than in a group of states with mixed status.
Michael New came to a perfectly reasonable conclusion:
All in all, these results are unsurprising. Surveys consistently show that a low percentage of OBGYNs perform abortions. The legal status of abortion would likely have little impact on the decisions of most OBGYNs as to where to move or locate their practice.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.
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