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The U.S. Supreme Court‘s decision to overturn a woman’s right to have an abortion marks a “very dark day in healthcare” that will leave patients at risk and doctors afraid to act, leaders of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said. “It is a dark day indeed for the tens of millions of patients who have suddenly and unfairly lost access to safe, legal and evidence-based abortion care,” ACOG President Dr. Iffath Abbasi Hoskins said Friday.

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“It is dark for the thousands of clinicians who now — instead of focusing on providing healthcare to their patients — have to live with the threat of legal, civil and even professional penalties while providing healthcare for the patients when they need it most,” Hoskins said.

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ACOG leaders spoke during a media briefing just hours after the high court voted 6-3 to uphold a Mississippi law to ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The court voted 5-to-4 to overturn Roe vs. Wade, which had protected a woman’s right to undergo an abortion in the United States for five decades.

“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion … and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” the high court said in its opinion on the Mississippi case Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Center. (UI News)

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